Geolocation for main map

[simon04]

It would be great, if the main map on the OpenStreetMap website showed a "geolocate me" button using the W3C geolocation. For this feature, an OpenLayers example exists on http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/geolocation.html. User SamatJain blogged about this some time ago: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SamatJain/diary/11287

When adding this feature, one should clarify the "Where am I?" link (which reverse-geolocates the current map position) – I have always been expecting the geolocation feature.

[tomhughes]

I believe there is already a ticket in trac for this, and it is sort of covered by #27 already where @mvexel started working on this. Main problem is finding space for it on our alreayd hugely oversubscribed home page, so it's kind of dependent on that getting a redesign.

[simon04]

As far as I understand #27, this is (only) about the user settings page. Concerning space, next to the "Where am I?" would be ideal. Maybe, we could go for a small icon, e.g., the one used in Chrome to indicate the use of Geolocation API: https://support.google.com/chrome/?p=cpn_location_sharing

[tomhughes]

I believe the intention was for that just to be a first step.

We do already geolocate the front page automatically for people who aren't logged in and don't have a cookie from a previous visit to the site.

[simon04]

I believe the intention was for that just to be a first step.

I couldn't read that from #27… Why not keep this ticket open as reference/reminder?

We do already geolocate the front page automatically for people who aren't logged in and don't have a cookie from a previous visit to the site.

Are you relating to the Quova geolocation based on the IP address? For my ISP/country (Austria), this isn't working too great – I get to see the entire Europe…

[tomhughes]

Yes, that's using the Quova geolocation. I'd be happy to take a patch to make it do browser geolocation but it would mean some restructuring of the code as it is done server side at the moment.