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Re:A Google Streetview / Wikipedia Mashup by bambax on Monday September 06, 2010 @09:45AM (#1666632)
I was also in the middle of Morocco the first time I tried. Then it worked.

I think what happens is, the first time you go to geosay you have to allow the browser to give away your location; if you click on "search here" (bottom left) before having given this authorization, you land in Africa.

A simple fix could be to not show the "search here" link before the application has a real location...?

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Re:A Google Streetview / Wikipedia Mashup by dansingerman on Monday September 06, 2010 @09:49AM (#1666647)
We have just deployed a fix for this. I _think_ some versions of FF have a bug in NetworkGeolocationProvider.js

(I think this is the bug: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/740469 although I have it in 3.6.8)

Anyhow, could you try again and see how it works?

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Re:A Google Streetview / Wikipedia Mashup by Potter on Monday September 06, 2010 @10:54AM (#1666775)
Ah yes, that seems to fix it. If I allow Chrome to access my location, then refresh the page, it works as expected.
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Re:A Google Streetview / Wikipedia Mashup by stewsnooze on Monday September 06, 2010 @09:52AM (#1666651)
I just tried this with the fix and it seems better
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