watson / wifi-triangulate

Finds your current position on planet earth using the wifi access points in your vicinity

wifi-triangulate

Finds your current position on planet earth using the wifi access points in your vicinity

Installation

npm install wifi-triangulate

Usage

This module requires that the wifi card on your computer is active and that you have access to the internet in order to communicate with Google so that it can triangulate your position.

var triangulate = require('wifi-triangulate')

triangulate(function (err, location) {
  if (err) throw err
  console.log(location) // => { lat: 38.0690894, lng: -122.8069356, accuracy: 42 }
})

CLI

Install wifi-triangulate as a global module to use it as a CLI:

npm install --global wifi-triangulate

Now just execute the wifi-triangulate command:

$ wifi-triangulate
{
    "lat": 38.0690894,
    "lng": -122.8069356,
    "accuracy": 42
}

License

MIT

wifi-triangulate's Issues

Error...

When I run this I get:

Geocoding service returned unexpected status code: 404

Here is how I'm calling it:

    `getPos: function(url) {
	var self = this;
	wifi-triangulate(function (err, location) {
     if (err) throw err
     console.log(location) // => { lat: 38.0690894, lng: -122.8069356, accuracy: 42 } 
     var result = location;
     self.sendSocketNotification("POS_RESULT", result);
     });
      },`

Or can it not be used that way?

Thanks for a great module!

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