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GeolocationCoordinates: accuracy property

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This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2020⁩.

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The accuracy read-only property of the GeolocationCoordinates interface is a strictly positive double representing the accuracy, with a 95% confidence level, of the GeolocationCoordinates.latitude and GeolocationCoordinates.longitude properties expressed in meters.

Value

A positive double representing the accuracy, with a 95% confidence level, of the GeolocationCoordinates.latitude and GeolocationCoordinates.longitude properties expressed in meters.

Specifications

Specification
Geolocation>
# latitude-longitude-and-accuracy-attributes>

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
accuracy 5 12 3.5 1610.6–15 5 18 4 1611–14 ≤3 1.0 4.4 ≤3

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GeolocationCoordinates/accuracy