Accessing real-time user location via last post or mobile location - api

I've built an app utilizing user's straight location; but I'd like access to the user's latest location i.e. when a user posts from a mobile device they include an approx. location; how can we access that? This would open a door to a huge "real-time" market.

This is not exposed via the Graph API.
I can't be 100% sure, but I posted a status update via the mobile app, verified it had the location "Brooklyn" on it. Then I used the API Explorer to drill down and look at that status update: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=781062048236 and there is no location information available.
You can also verify by looking at the docs that they just don't make it available.

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Soundcloud API returns empty

Thanks in advance for the help.
So while developing an application, I need API data and I retrieve JSON objects. Not a big deal, but with one certain account it doesn't work.
https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/257255126?client_id=CLIENT_ID_HERE
The ID 257255126 is a track from this profile: https://soundcloud.com/discoverysounds1/.
Every track from this profile returns empty from the API while the same API link works if I insert a track ID from any other profile.
I've already notified the owner of the problem and he hasn't done anything weird or disabled API access if that's even possible.
What could be the problem here?
Thanks,
Jordan
I just tested this with a website I am developing using the API.
If I add one of the tracks to an existing playlist that I have created to test certain functionality, the track does not appear in the playist when retrieved via the /me/playlists endpoint.
When I load the playlist into the soundcloud widget, the track is visible and unrestricted (as in full duration and not a 30 second preview).
I am seeing similar behaviour with tracks that are marked as "soundcloud go" not being visible in the playlist tracks from the /me/playlists endpoint, but available via the widget when the playlist is loaded (albeit only a 30 second preview in their case).
Those items are identifiable as having a "SUB_HIGH_TIER" monetization_model
The track I loaded from your example
There seem to be various issues with the API right now related to the implementation of "soundcloud go"

Android, Getting inconsistency in User Current Location.?

I am new in android and wanna get user current location using GPS_PROVIDER, but every time getting different-different location how can I use Google Play Services. and what is the best way to get accurate location in android.
Thanks you.
In general there are two different types of locations available through the Android API.
One is the GPS-Location which only works outdoors and which has an accuaracy between 5m and 50m.
The other kind of location is the so called Network-Location which is a loaction measure based on Wifi Networks in you surrounding and GSM-Base-Stations which have a accuracy between 100m and 1500m. This localization technique also works indoors, because it only requires you smartphone to have network access. The accuaracy gets better in urban areas where a lot of Wifi and GSM-Base-Stations are located. The more GSM-Base-Station / Wifi hotspos are available the better is the accurarcy of the loation measurement. It can also get down to 5m.
When requesting such an location Google does internally some magic to compute the position. This request requires a internet connection (you don't need to explicitly give the permission). Interanally Android sends a request to a Google server which contains fingerprints of the surrounding GSM-Base-Stations and afterwards computes your location (if you are curious you can find the code here).
With GPS-bases location the location accurarcy is the same all over the world without any internet connection, but works only outdoors.
With my applications I implemented a logic which detects if GPS is present or not and if not I switched to network localization, this works fine.

Detect a user's current song in Spotify api

I was wondering if it was possible to detect what song a user is listening to from his/her current active device via the spotify web api.
Thanks.
I know this is an old question, but there is a new beta API endpoint available that supplies this information. It does have some bugs that I've noticed though.
Stations only: If you change stations, you have to restart Spotify to get the API endpoint to update and continue updating.
According to bug reports, it lags behind 20 to 30 minutes at random. I haven't had that problem, so it may be fixed.
GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/currently-playing
Docs: https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/get-the-users-currently-playing-track/
This is not possible using the web API. If you're writing a Mac app, you can use the Spotify Desktop Client's AppleScript API to access the current track. If the user is scribbling to Last.fm, you can use Last.fm's APIs. Otherwise, this data is not accessible.

No projects listed with Maps Engine Lite API

I've set up API service account access and that seems to be authenticating and connecting OK using the provided sample code (https://developers.google.com/maps-engine/documentation/oauth/serviceaccount).
I've shared my map with the provided service account email address in the Google Maps Engine UI.
Accessing the API method https://www.googleapis.com/mapsengine/v1/projects I expected to see my map in a returned list of projects visible to the service account. Instead, only an empty projects array is returned.
Ultimately my goal is to access place name and geodata stored within a layer on the map I have created in Maps Engine Lite. Is there a step I have missed or something I have misunderstood about granting API access to a Maps Engine Lite map?
Did you progress with your question?. I got one project in the list but because I singed in for a free Google Maps Engine account. That allows you to créate just one project.
But I was looking for accessing "my places" maps.
It turns out certain features, such as the ones I was looking to use, are only available on the (paid for) Maps Engine, and not "Maps Engine Lite". The API is different.
When you mention that they are just available on the Maps Engine Pro (paid for) version, do you mean that the user who owns the maps has to upgrade or yourself, as a developer that want's to access user's maps, have?.
I wouldn't mind to pay (a reasonable price) for it in order to get my app working again. But I don't think most of my app's users would.
Could you check if it worked that way?

J2ME location API (JSR 179) on non-GPS devices

The Java ME Location API says it supports:
Mobile Network based positioning.
GPS
Short Range Beacons
Quite a number of phones support this API (JSR179). However, some phones don't have an inbuilt GPS module, is it still possible to use this API to obtain the phone's current location?
Mobile Network based positioning.
The security settings will control if you can access this, the service provider may also make a charge.
From my very limited experience of J2ME, you can set the phone to not allow an app access to private data (such as location) and to charged for services (such as location) - you can also set it to popup a request for the user to authorize it.
J2ME is pretty well designed to gracefully fall back to whats available and hide a lot of the details.
Yes, some GPSless S60s (e.g. N70) give location through this API when used with an external GPS device attached via Bluetooth. Others may possibly give you approximate location using CellID.