geo-loc-utils

A small collection of geolocation/direction utilities.

• getNavigatorCoords - get current position (a promise wrapper around Geolocation.getCurrentPosition)
• degreeToCardinal - convert degree to a cardinal direction

Install

npm install geo-loc-utils

getNavigatorCoords

params:

• options {object} - Geolocaiton.getCurrentPosition supports some options.
• ignoreCache {boolean} - Results are stored in memory by default and returned by subsequent calls. To get around this pass true as the second argument to ignore cache.

import { getNavigatorCoords } from 'geo-loc-utils';
 
// prompts browser to allow location access
getNavigatorCoords()
  .then(position => console.log(position));

degreeToCardinal

params:

• degree {Number} - degree to convert
• secondaryInterCardinals {Boolean} - whether to include secondary interCardinal directions (i.e. 'NNE', 'SSW')

import { degreeToCardinal } from 'geo-loc-utils';
 
const windBearing = 342;
const windDirection = degreeToCardinal(windBearing);
console.log(windDirection);

Development

• Notes:
  • Written in TypeScript
  • Compiled to UMD via WebPack
  • Compiled to ES6 via TSC
  • Typings generated by TSC
  • geolocation isn't supported when serving localhostf
• Setup: pnpm install
• Serve: pnpm run start

See index.ejs

Runtimes

Latest tested runtimes

• node: 10.16.3
• pnpm: 2.15.1