What is special about Geospatial?

The GeolocationAPIprovides the geolocation of a device running a Gears-enabled web browser. The Geolocation API allows web apps to retrieve the user’s current position. The API should provide the following features:

• One-shot position requests (e.g. for recommendations sites — “where am I right now?”)
• Repeated position updates (e.g. for continuously updating one’s location on a map)
• Ability to get the last-known position cheaply before doing an expensive new request
• Compatibility with future use as a singleton in the standard DOM (e.g. window.geolocation)

Link: http://code.google.com/p/google-gears/wiki/GeolocationAPI

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