API Web - Frequently asked questions
Where can I see WebLocator working?
Just check out our demo page here.
The Navizon WebLocator
will identify your position and you will be able to find businesses
around you (just type Starbucks in the local search text box and you
will have the closest Starbucks around you displayed) and find the
direction from where you are to any given location
I want to implement that in my own web pages? How do I get
started?
Easy as 1-2-3. First you need to create an API account. Then you
will need to create a WebLocator API key. You will be asked the
hostname where your WebLocator will be hosted (example:
www.navizon.com) and the script where the user will be
redirected once his location is identified.
You're almost done
When you click on the "details"
button next to your API key, you will have a text box with the HTML
code that you need to embed in your web page. Just copy this code
and paste it anywhere on your page.
Then on the receiving end, you
will need a script that will get the session id from
the user and get the corresponding location. Here's a sample script in asp
that will do just that. Copy it in your receiving script and paste
it on your page. This script just displays the latitude and
longitude but you can do whatever you want with it.
That was easy, wasn't it?
Where do I download the Weblocator API.
Like we just explained, there is nothing to download. Just
copy/paste the html code that is generated once you create a
Weblocator license in your own page, then configure the return
script so that it will get the data from the transaction id (like
this sample script and
that's it.
How can I make sure that someone doesn't take my license key to
tap into my account?
No worries there. Because you have entered the hostname where your
web pages are hosted, any request that will come from a
different domain name will be rejected.
Is it possible for the end user to alter the geographic location
that Weblocator finds?
No. Because the geographic location is passed from our server to
your server, the user can't alter it.
