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Opera now has the ability to provide my geolocation to websites (if I agree to share it with the website). However, for my desktop, I'd like opera not to consult Google / WIFI points / GeoIP services whatsoever. The computer won't travel until I move house, and I'd like more control over exactly where I'm placed with what accuracy (actually: they may know my location up to city level, so I'd very much like to drop a marker in the center of my hometown & claim that as residence rather then a more precise location). I tried setting the data provider to a local file, filled with the data according to the google api
{
"location": {
"latitude": 51.0,
"longitude": -0.1,
"altitude": 30.1,
"accuracy": 1200.1,
"altitude_accuracy": 10.1,
"address": {
"street_number": "100",
"street": "Amphibian Walkway",
"postal_code": "94043",
"city": "Mountain View",
"county": "Mountain View County",
"region": "California",
"country": "United States of America",
"country_code": "US"
}
}
}
However, this does not work. Running a local webserver and pointing Location Provider URL
in opera:config
to http://localhost/location.json does work, but I'd rather not be forced to constantly run a webserver when all I want to provide is a static location. Are there any workarounds for this to enter a static location in Opera, or let it it grok a local file instead of an url?
Because if I wanted to do that, I'd go the already set local webserver route, and why should I store my location on the wild wild web, if it just needs 2 lat/lon floats? I'm just thoroughly disappointed a local file doesn't work, which would only be my second preference, the first naturally just inputting it in
opera:config
– Wrikken – 2010-10-17T21:04:12.667As you said "but I'd rather not be forced to constantly run a webserver", I suggested put it directly on the web, as there are many paid and free places that you can do it. Even I would prefer to simply input the two coords directly on Opera, I was just being practical and proposing a solution that works right now. – Bacco – 2010-10-17T21:09:03.527
My apologies, I wasn't really clear on that, and I do appreciate your answer. However, I'd rather not have it on any webserver. Putting it somewhere is no problem at all, as I even own a couple of servers, but I'd rather not abuse on of those for serving one single file for an app that doesn't get the file protocol ;) – Wrikken – 2010-10-18T06:39:39.153