Show your location on google map with error handler
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Geolocation Map</title> <style> #mapSurface {//from ww w .j a va 2 s . c o m width: 600px; height: 400px; border: solid 1px black; } </style> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=true"></script> <script> let results; let map; window.onload = function() { results = document.getElementById("results"); let mapOptions = { zoom: 13, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP }; map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("mapSurface"), mapOptions); if (navigator.geolocation) { navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition( geolocationSuccess, geolocationFailure ); results.innerHTML = "The search has begun."; } else { results.innerHTML = "This browser doesn't support geolocation."; } } function geolocationSuccess(position) { let location = new google.maps.LatLng(position.coords.latitude,position.coords.longitude); map.setCenter(location); let infowindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow(); infowindow.setContent("You are here, or somewhere thereabouts."); infowindow.setPosition(location); infowindow.open(map); results.innerHTML = "Now you're on the map."; } function geolocationFailure(positionError) { if (positionError.code == 1) { results.innerHTML = "You decided not to share, but that's OK. We won't ask again."; } else if (positionError.code == 2) { results.innerHTML = "The network is down or the positioning service can't be reached."; } else if (positionError.code == 3) { results.innerHTML = "The attempt timed out before it could get the location data."; } else { results.innerHTML = "This the mystery error. Something else happened, but we don't know what."; } } </script> </head> <body> <p id="results">Where do you live?</p> <div id="mapSurface"></div> </body> </html>