Why Geometry/Point created in Geolocate?

[probins]

Why is "locationupdated" in Control/Geolocate/geolocate() creating and returning a Geometry/Point? Surely all that's needed is the position as provided by navigator.geolocation.

I would like to create a simple page using a marker to mark current position, and to cut bandwidth to the minimum by using only the essential classes. Having this in there just adds unnecessary classes to my build.

[elemoine]

We could add a point property to the event only if Geometry.Point is defined, and document this in the doc strings for locationupdated. Would that work for you?

[probins]

yes, i did think of suggesting that. But I'm wondering why the Point is created at all. Alternatively, as a LonLat is being created, why not return that?

[elemoine]

To make it easier to add the location to a vector layer, but I agree this is of little value.

[probins]

I'm also thinking it would be useful to have a bindZoom option, so people could set the zoomlevel bind should use. I would imagine in most cases, a zoom level of 0 is not what people would want.

[probins]

I've decided the simplest way to get what I want is not to use the OL control. Creating my own code for this is pretty straightforward. So I will close the issue.