OpenStreetMap should be used in /register form.

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OpenStreetMap should be used in /register form.

Opened this issue 5 years ago · 2 comments

bstarynk commented 5 years ago

In our /register form, we need to use OpenStreetMap to enable the user to click to say "I live at that position".

We don't understand in commit 49b1464 how that could be done. But we do know that it is possible.

Answer 1 · 2020-04-04T03:36:42.000Z

Related: the HTML5 geolocation API.

Answer 2 · 2020-04-04T13:12:54.000Z

In our /register form, we need to use OpenStreetMap to enable the user to click to say "I live at that position".

We don't understand in commit 49b1464 how that could be done. But we do know that it is possible.

I have done something similar a couple of years ago, setting hidden input variables to the longitude and latitude of the web client. Then submitting the form will submit the geolocation. (I used geolocation from maxmind but the principle should be the same). Would that work?