geolocation

I'm currently building a test and trying to get a google+ user location. I'm testing on myself and have set my position to public. I was originally planning to use Google Latitude, however, since Google is deprecating this API in a few days, my only option is to use the Google+ API. The parameter currentLocation was added a few months ago I'm therefore trying to get it. But could not manage to do it. I've tested on my own server using the PHP API and then the JS API with Oauth2.0, but this damn parameter is never sent back. I can get any other parameter but definitely not that one. Then I've

I need to download google location history data in kml for a period of time. Up until August 26, 2015, a URL in this format worked: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/kml?startTime=$start_seconds&endTime=$end_seconds Now a link in that format fails. I suspect the problem is related to google changing the way its website displays location history , though that change happened nearly a month earlier on July 22. A commenter on the google products forum suggested this: [T]he KML generation can do multiple days, so just edit the URL Eg https://www.google.com/maps/timeline/kml?authuser=0&pb

I have noticed a lot of information about how to get your location using Google geolocation looks, based on IP address. But I am wondering if and how I could use this service to input a location (longitude and latitude) and get back the current address, or at least a city, state. I would like to do this in C#, but I'll work with any language. Any advice? What you describe is called Reverse Geocoding . Google provides a Geocoding Web Service API which you can call from your server-side application (using any language) to do reverse geocoding . For example, the following request: http://maps

I want to check a particular website from various locations. For example, I see a site example.com from the US and it works fine. The colleague in Europe says he cannot see the site (gets a dns eror). Is there any way I can check that for my self instead of asking him every time? Sometimes a website doesn't work on my PC and I want to know if it's the website or a problem local to me(e.g. my ISP, my router, etc). The simplest way to check a website and avoid using your local network resources(and thus avoid any problems caused by them) is using a web proxy such as Proxy.org . This is a bit of

I am redesigning a customer database and one of the new pieces of information I would like to store along with the standard address fields (Street, City, etc.) is the geographic location of the address. The only use case I have in mind is to allow users to map the coordinates on Google maps when the address cannot otherwise be found, which often happens when the area is newly developed, or is in a remote/rural location. My first inclination was to store latitude and longitude as decimal values, but then I remembered that SQL Server 2008 R2 has a geography data type. I have absolutely no

I am trying to scrape user location with respect to user names from twitter. Input: The user list has more than 50K User names AkkiPritam,6.77E+17,12/15/2015,#chennaifloods AkkiPritam,6.77E+17,12/15/2015,#bhoomikatrust AkkiPritam,6.77E+17,12/15/2015,#akshaykumar gischethans,6.77E+17,12/15/2015,#chennaifloods mid_day,6.77E+17,12/15/2015,#bollywood mid_day,6.77E+17,12/15/2015,#chennaifloods Nanthivarman16,6.77E+17,12/15/2015,#admkfails Nanthivarman16,6.77E+17,12/15/2015,#jayafails Nanthivarman16,6.77E+17,12/15/2015,#stickergovt Nanthivarman16,6.77E+17,12/15/2015,#chennaifloods AdilaMatra,6.77E