Web Location

A labs.ericsson.com enablerhttp://labs.ericsson.com/apis/web-location/

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Web Location

Retrieve the location of your users from their mobile phones

A simple web interface to access the location of a user in the mobile phone network

Maintain user integrity and privacy (end-user consent is managed by the API)

Powered by Ericsson IPX

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Why Web Location?

Get the accurate, current position of the users of your web applications (accuracy ~ 100 – 1km)

Locate users and at the same time maintain user integrity and privacy (end-user consent is managed by the API)

No need for users to input their location or install any applications or browser plugins

Web Location is the quickest, simplest, and most accurate way of positioning users in location based web applications

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Main Features of Web Location

Powerful location component easily embedded into any web page

Enables exposure of user’s location to a web application

Get access to operator-based positioning (triangulation) via Ericsson IPX

No need for users to install any applications on their phones, and the positioning works for all types of phones

Includes management of end-user consent to give users complete control of privacy.

Easily integrated RESTful API

Free user locations up to a limit

Currently works with all operators in Sweden and Norway (more countries are coming)

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Web Location Overview

• Your user visits your website

• You ask the Web Location API for user location

• Web Location finds the location of the user’s mobile phone

• Web Location sends the location to you

• You show the user a website customized to their exact location

• Web Location asks your user if she agrees to be located by your application

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//Create a request for the end-user location$url = "http://mwl.labs.ericsson.net/mwlservice/resource/";$fields = array(

'msisdn' => $_POST['msisdn'],'devKey' => 'APIKEY','applicationID' => 'APPLICATIONID'

);$create_url = $url . 'location/getLocationByMsisdn';

//Make the request$response = http_post_fields($create_url, $fields, NULL, array("timeout"=>10), $info);

//Extract the body from the response and print it$http_obj = http_parse_message($response);print("Response = ".$http_obj->body);

Web Location API

Retrieve the location of your users with a simple call to the Web Location API

Simple example in PHP (get user location and display it):

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