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"Where am I?" feature returns address of the center of the map instead of show user location via HTML5 API #880

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Rezonansowy opened this issue Jan 28, 2015 · 3 comments

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@Rezonansowy
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It should return the client location via HTML5 GeoLocation API.
Doc: http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/
Demo: http://html5demos.com/geo

@Rezonansowy Rezonansowy changed the title Where am I feature returns address of the center of the map instead of show user location via HTML5 API "Where am I?" feature returns address of the center of the map instead of show user location via HTML5 API Jan 28, 2015
@danstowell
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This is because the link is badly labeled! It doesn't mean what you think it means :( - see #412

(This is a recurring theme. Also reported in #815. The repeated raising of this issue might motivate a change?)

@Rezonansowy
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@danstowell But this feature has no sense otherwise. "where is my map positioned" doesn't seem to be very useful and the real "Where am I?" which tells me my location – so I don't have to search it – is really wanted, useful (not only for users) and standard in digital map viewing.

@tomhughes
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Well "where is my map positioned" is exactly what it was added for - people who were sent a link to a zoomed in map and wanted to know what part of the world they were looking at.

As @dankarran says, this is a dupe of #815 anyway.

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