OpenLayers. Control. Geolocate

The Geolocate control wraps w3c geolocation API into control that can be bound to a map, and generate events on location update

To use this control requires to load the proj4js library if the projection of the map is not EPSG:4326 or EPSG:900913.

Inherits from

Summary
OpenLayers. Control. Geolocate The Geolocate control wraps w3c geolocation API into control that can be bound to a map, and generate events on location update
Properties
events {OpenLayers.Events} Events instance for listeners and triggering control specific events.
bind {Boolean} If true, map center will be set on location update.
watch {Boolean} If true, position will be update regularly.
geolocationOptions {Object} Options to pass to the navigator’s geolocation API.
Constructor
OpenLayers. Control. Geolocate Create a new control to deal with browser geolocation API
Functions
getCurrentLocation {Boolean} Returns true if a event will be fired (successfull registration)

Properties

events

{OpenLayers.Events} Events instance for listeners and triggering control specific events.

Register a listener for a particular event with the following syntax

control.events.register(type, obj, listener);

Supported event types (in addition to those from OpenLayers.Control.events)

locationupdated Triggered when browser return a new position.  Listeners will receive an object with a ‘position’ property which is the browser.geolocation.position native object, as well as a ‘point’ property which is the location transformed in the current map projection.
locationfailed Triggered when geolocation has failed
locationuncapable Triggered when control is activated on a browser which doesn’t support geolocation

bind

{Boolean} If true, map center will be set on location update.

watch

{Boolean} If true, position will be update regularly.

geolocationOptions

{Object} Options to pass to the navigator’s geolocation API.  See http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html.  No specific option is passed to the geolocation API by default.

Constructor

OpenLayers. Control. Geolocate

Create a new control to deal with browser geolocation API

Functions

getCurrentLocation

getCurrentLocation: function()

Returns

{Boolean} Returns true if a event will be fired (successfull registration)

getCurrentLocation: function()
{Boolean} Returns true if a event will be fired (successfull registration)
Controls affect the display or behavior of the map.
{OpenLayers.Events} Events instance for listeners and triggering control specific events.
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