https://2004.manuel-bieh.de/blog/geolib-js Manuel Bieh – Web Development & Consulting Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:00:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 https://2004.manuel-bieh.de/blog/geolib-js/comment-page-1#comment-107916 Fri, 05 Jul 2013 18:25:37 +0000 http://www.manuel-bieh.de/blog/?p=782#comment-107916 Mobile Safari / iOS exhibits a rounding/float imprecision error which causes useDecimal to think a long decimal isn’t decimal, e.g. -79.55374145507812 becomes -79.55374145507813. When it comes to geolocation, though, a decimal at that position doesn’t really matter… we worked around this by roughly truncating it and reparsing it (because a trailing 0 will also trigger this exception!).
It was hard to track down, because all Safari logs is „Unknown format. from undefined at line 0″…

]]> https://2004.manuel-bieh.de/blog/geolib-js/comment-page-1#comment-83743 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:11:29 +0000 http://www.manuel-bieh.de/blog/?p=782#comment-83743 I will take a look at this, thank you!

]]> https://2004.manuel-bieh.de/blog/geolib-js/comment-page-1#comment-83742 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:08:25 +0000 http://www.manuel-bieh.de/blog/?p=782#comment-83742 Hey, I just checked out your geo lib and i must say that your distance equation is very inaccurate. The most accurate approximation is the vincenty formula. Check out this site to improve your lib: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-vincenty.html
greets seb

]]> https://2004.manuel-bieh.de/blog/geolib-js/comment-page-1#comment-83538 Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:07:31 +0000 http://www.manuel-bieh.de/blog/?p=782#comment-83538 Schönes Ding, und noch ein kleines Lehrstück, wie man seine eigene kleine Library baut. Danke, Manuel!

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