The Geolocation API is one of the most exciting new features of HTML5 for us GIS folk. In this section we’re going to look at how geolocation works, what capabilities it offers us and show how easy it is to build an application to retrieve the users location. What is...
In our last post we introduced the topic of HTML5 for GIS web and mobile developers. This post is a continuation of our HTML5 series of posts. Introduction HTML5 introduces the new concept of ‘semantic markup’. Let’s try and illustrate what we mean by semantic markup...
Today we’re beginning a new series of posts covering the use of HTML5 for web and mobile GIS developers. 2010 – HTML5 Takes Off Google, Microsoft and Apple have all been shouting from the rooftops about HTML5 since around 2010 and have already started...
