About this course
Do you want to track the location of your site's visitors, that is to identify from where your site gets traffic? Do you want to mark the location(s) of your local business in a map on your website? Do you want to develop location-aware or GPS applications? Do you want to learn HTML5 and JavaScript in depth? Then this course is for you.
Geolocation continues to be a hot topic especially in the smartphone sector. You can do many wonderful things if you are able to track the location of a person.
- It would be great if you could know whether your daughter has reached her school safely.
- It would be useful if you could find the actual route to an unknown place.
- It would be cool if you could locate a restaurant or a hospital in an unknown place.
Isn't it? All these are possible with geolocation. In today's competitive world, businesses try to improve their offerings making the best use of geolocation information. This in turn increases the demand for location aware applications.
In this course, we look at the HTML5 geolocation API including how geolocation works and how to get location information for a point of time and also for a period of time. The HTML5 geolocation API provides a simple and effective interface that you can use to create location-aware web applications that run on desktop and mobile browsers.
As you proceed with this course, you will learn how to use the following APIs along with HTML5 Geolocation API to make your applications really magical.
- Google Maps API
- Google Places API
- Google Directions API
This course teaches you how to come up with really useful and unique location-aware applications (GPS- based applications) using HTML5 Geolocation API. You would develop 5 location-aware applications as part of this course. The happy news is that you can use these applications while traveling (if you have a mobile device with GPS).
By the end of this course, you would have the following web applications developed from scratch.
- Where Am I? that displays the location information in a text message and also in a map.
- Weather Forecast that displays the local weather information to the user.
- Distance Calculator that calculates the distance between the current location and specified destination
- How to Reach? displays the route from the current location to the specified destination
- Find Around Me displays nearby restaurants, ATMs etc to the user
- Postcode Finder displays the postcode of the user and allows the user to get the postcode of the address entered
Each application is developed from SCRATCH which makes it easier even for beginners to follow. You will also get a list of application ideas that you can use to develop your own location-aware applications.
What are the requirements?
- Basic knowledge of HTML and JavaScript will be helpful (not necessary)
- Google Chrome or any other modern web browser
- Komodo Edit or any other text editor
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 66 lectures and 5 hours of content!
- Detect user's current location.
- Display Google map with markers and information window.
- Display user's location in a map.
- Use Google Maps API, Places API and Directions API in web applications and websites
- Develop 5 unique location-aware applications including Where Am I?, Weather Forecast, Distance Calculator, How to Reach? and Find Around Me
What is the target audience?
- Students who wish to learn HTML5 and JavaScript
- Developers who want to come up with location-aware applications
- Entrepreneurs who want to display their business location in a map in their website
- Anyone who wants to develop web applications incorporating maps and geolocation
