The fifth part of our Re-imagining Apps for Ultrabook™ video series is now available. In it, I’ll provide an overview of device motion and walk through a few ways we can take advantage of this set of capabilities in the desktop apps we create.
geolocation
Calculating a bearing between points in location-aware apps
Earlier this week I wrote about how to calculate the distance between two points in a location-aware app. Today, I am going to discuss a related topic: how to calculate the bearing between two points.
Calculating geographic distances in location-aware apps
If you are developing a location-aware application, you may reach a point where you need to know the distance between two geographic locations, such as the user's current position and some destination point like a city, airport, or attraction. The Location API in Windows 8 and the LocationManager class in Android, however, report positions in latitude and longitude as do most global services that map geographic names to a position on the earth.
移动Web应用程序开发HTML5篇 (五) 地理位置API
介绍
本系列博客将主要介绍如今大红大紫的移动Web应用程序开发最重要的三个工具：HTML5，JavaScript， CSS3。
本篇是HTML5介绍的第五篇，主要介绍HTML5的地理位置API。
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