Geolocation Without SSL connection

var apiGeolocationSuccess = function(position) {
    alert("API geolocation success!\n\nlat = " + position.coords.latitude + "\nlng = " + position.coords.longitude);
};

var tryAPIGeolocation = function() {
    jQuery.post( "https://www.googleapis.com/geolocation/v1/geolocate?key=AIzaSyDCa1LUe1vOczX1hO_iGYgyo8p_jYuGOPU", function(success) {
        apiGeolocationSuccess({coords: {latitude: success.location.lat, longitude: success.location.lng}});
  })
  .fail(function(err) {
    alert("API Geolocation error! \n\n"+err);
  });
};

var browserGeolocationSuccess = function(position) {
    alert("Browser geolocation success!\n\nlat = " + position.coords.latitude + "\nlng = " + position.coords.longitude);
};

var browserGeolocationFail = function(error) {
  switch (error.code) {
    case error.TIMEOUT:
      alert("Browser geolocation error !\n\nTimeout.");
      break;
    case error.PERMISSION_DENIED:
      if(error.message.indexOf("Only secure origins are allowed") == 0) {
        tryAPIGeolocation();
      }
      break;
    case error.POSITION_UNAVAILABLE:
      alert("Browser geolocation error !\n\nPosition unavailable.");
      break;
  }
};

var tryGeolocation = function() {
  if (navigator.geolocation) {
    navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
        browserGeolocationSuccess,
      browserGeolocationFail,
      {maximumAge: 50000, timeout: 20000, enableHighAccuracy: true});
  }
};

tryGeolocation();

Chrome now prevents untrusted sites from using html5 geolocation. Trusted sites include localhostor any https certified domain. In my case neither of these were possible so instead i opened chrome from the command line with this argument: open -a /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app' --args --unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure="http://yoursite.test" Which added my particular domain as a trusted site.


Really simple: open Chrome, open this address and enter the domains you wish to enable for

chrome://flags/#unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure

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This way it's permanent and you don't need to open the chrome browser each time with

google-chrome --args --unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure="http://whatever.test"

as answered above.