Geolocation
The
geolocation
object provides access to the device's GPS sensor.
Geolocation provides location information for the device, such as latitude and longitude. Common sources of location information include Global Positioning System (GPS) and location inferred from network signals such as IP address, RFID, WiFi and Bluetooth MAC addresses, and GSM/CDMA cell IDs. No guarantee is given that the API returns the device's actual location.
This API is based on the W3C Geolocation API Specification. Some devices (Android, BlackBerry, Bada, Windows Phone 7, webOS and Tizen, to be specific) already provide an implementation of this spec. For those devices, the built-in support is used instead of replacing it with Cordova's implementation. For devices that don't have geolocation support, the Cordova implementation adheres to the W3C specification.
Methods
Arguments
Objects (Read-Only)
Permissions
Android
app/res/xml/plugins.xml
<plugin name="Geolocation" value="org.apache.cordova.GeoBroker" />
app/AndroidManifest.xml
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_LOCATION_EXTRA_COMMANDS" />
Bada
No permissions are required.
BlackBerry WebWorks
www/plugins.xml
<plugin name="Geolocation" value="org.apache.cordova.geolocation.Geolocation" />
www/config.xml
<rim:permissions>
<rim:permit>read_geolocation</rim:permit>
</rim:permissions>
iOS
App/Supporting Files/Cordova.plist
<key>Plugins</key>
<dict>
<key>Geolocation</key>
<string>CDVLocation</string>
</dict>
webOS
No permissions are required.
Windows Phone
Properties/WPAppManifest.xml
<Capabilities>
<Capability Name="ID_CAP_LOCATION" />
</Capabilities>
Reference: Application Manifest for Windows Phone
Tizen
No permissions are required.