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There are many reasons why you would want to fake your location in firefox. One good reason would be "un-faking" your location on computers with no wlan cards, e.g. at work, or where there's no data available for the WLANs around you. All you need for faking is a text file (eg. /home/username/.mynewlocation.txt) somewhere on your computer with the following content:
{"location":{"latitude":50.941863,"longitude":6.958374,
"accuracy":20.0}}
The path in Firefox to this file is:
file://home/username/.mynewlocation.txt
Type about:config in your location bar, confirm the warning, search for geo.wifi.url, and replace the old url (https://www.google.com/loc/json) with your new one from above. Restart firefox, enjoy your new location :-)
Explanation:
latitude/longitude => the location you want to have, go to google maps, select location, click on "Link" and use the values from the ll= parameter
accuracy => the accuracy you want to announce, in meters.
1. Click 'Locate me'.
2. in Firefox 3.5 allow location sharing by clicking "Share location"
Source
The code is uncommented, since it's straight forward, once you had a look at the CloudMade docs
<button onclick="locateMe();" src="">Locate me</button><br/>
<div id="pugio-osm" style="width: 460px; height: 400px"></div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tile.cloudmade.com/wml/latest/web-maps-lite.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var cloudmade = new CM.Tiles.CloudMade.Web({key: '7f203ab42017580cb27688d55067ca06', styleId:997});
var map = new CM.Map('pugio-osm', cloudmade);
map.addControl(new CM.LargeMapControl());
map.setCenter(new CM.LatLng(0, 0), 1);
function locateMe()
{
if (navigator.geolocation)
{
//yes, the location in Ff3.5 is basically a one-liner
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position)
{
//position holds our coordinates
var myLoc = new CM.LatLng(position.coords.latitude, position.coords.longitude);
var myMark = new CM.Marker(myLoc, {
title: "You are here"
});
map.setCenter(myLoc, 15);
map.addOverlay(myMark);
myMark.openInfoWindow(
"<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/search/?a=14&b="
+ map.getBounds().getSouthWest().lng()
+ ","
+ map.getBounds().getSouthWest().lat()
+ "," + map.getBounds().getNorthEast().lng()
+ "," + map.getBounds().getNorthEast().lat()
+ "&z=t\" target=\"_blank\">Photos on Flickr</a>");
});
}
else
{
alert("Sorry, your browser does not provide an location API\nor you disabled it (geo.enabled=false in Firefox 3.5).");
}
}
</script>


