Location Awareness Question - Can I do the same in javascript?

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Can anyone explain where/how Drafts get the location data?? I am trying to use location capture in Obsidian and am curious how Drafts is able to obtain gps location so quickly (as compared with accessing this information from shortcuts).

I would like to generate the same info directly in Obsidian, currently I am using Drafts to create some of my notes and sending them to Obsidian.

Thanks for any guidance.

Don

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Drafts uses standard Apple location API to obtain location information. I don’t know how/where/if Obsidian exposes similar information.

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Slightly off topic but…

… Is location information available to a (probably Javascript) action?

I’d like to add to my daily draft with “At home” versus, say, “Johannesburg” or “Istanbul”.

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You could get your GPS coordinates from Drafts template tags (utilising draft.processTemplate() in JavaScript) and associate the result with whatever tolerance you wish to a location, or use an API (or call to Shortcuts to call an Apple API) to get an address.

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