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The Geolocation API is ideally suited to web applications for mobile devices such as smartphones. On desktop computers, the W3C Geolocation API works in Firefox since version 3.5, Google Chrome, [6] Opera 10.6, [7] Internet Explorer 9.0, [8] and Safari 5. On mobile devices, it works on Android (firmware 2.0+), iOS, Windows Phone and Maemo.
[10] [11] In 2020, Azure Maps Visual for Power BI was released, integrating location-based features and mapping capabilities into Microsoft's business intelligence software. [12] An elevation API (which was later retired), [13] geolocation services, [14] and an iOS [15] and Android software development kit [16] were introduced in 2021.
IP address geolocation can be also used in fraud detection to match billing address postal code or area code. [11] Banks can prevent " phishing " attacks, money laundering and other security breaches by determining the user's location as part of the authentication process.
In a geo-blocking scheme, the user's location is determined using Internet geolocation techniques, such as checking the user's IP address against a blacklist or whitelist, GPS queries in the case of a mobile device, accounts, and measuring the end-to-end delay of a network connection to estimate the physical location of the user.
Wi-Fi positioning system (WPS, WiPS or WFPS) is a geolocation system that uses the characteristics of nearby Wi‑Fi access points to discover where a device is located. [1]It is used where satellite navigation such as GPS is inadequate due to various causes including multipath and signal blockage indoors, or where acquiring a satellite fix would take too long.
Such applications include the automatic reconfiguration of a computing device to suit the location in which it is currently being used (examples include ControlPlane Archived 2017-11-07 at the Wayback Machine and Locamatic), or publishing a user's location to appropriate members of a social network, and allowing retailers to publish special ...
The geo URI scheme is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force's RFC 5870 (published 8 June 2010) [1] as: . a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for geographic locations using the 'geo' scheme name.
For audio and video files which use the vorbiscomment metadata format (including Opus, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Speex, and Ogg Theora), there is a proposed GEO LOCATION [8] field which can be used. Like all vorbis comments, it is plain text, and it takes the form: GEO_LOCATION=(decimal latitude);(decimal longitude);([optional]elevation in meters) for ...