[Rails] Re: determining link geo-location

On Aug 23, 1:45 am, Rajinder Yadav <devguy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to figure out how to get the user's geo-location when a
> request comes in after they've clicked on a link. Is there a easy way to
> do this in rails, also is the geo-location provided by the user's
> browser, or is there another way this is determined?
>

You might want to take a look at the html5 geolocation api (
http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html ). The browser will ask the
user for permission, and precision will vary - last time I checked on
my machine Safari used nearby wifi signals to work out its position
(which was pretty good) whereas Firefox just did an ip address thing,
which was out by a hunded miles (and sometimes is completely wrong, eg
if I'm travelling and using a VPN)

Fred
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Rajinder Yadav

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