Getting current location of user using Azure maps - django

Question

I'm working on a Django project where I need the current location of the user when the user presses a certain button.
I need to do this with the help of Azure Maps. I have read their documentation. Still, I'm unable to find a way to get the user's location.
What I want is when the user presses the button the Azure maps API must return me the user's location.
1. Is it possible to get the user's location using Azure maps?
2. If yes, how can I get started ( any resource/documentation )?

Answer 1

Getting the users location while in a browser can be done using the geolocation API that is built into the browser, there is no need to use any other library, such as Azure Maps. If Azure Maps were to provide such a feature they would simply wrap this built in feature (this is what other mapping platforms do too). Here is some docs: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_geolocation.asp
Here is a code sample that uses the geolocation API with Azure Maps: https://azuremapscodesamples.azurewebsites.net/#device-sensors

Answer 2

This documentation is quite helpful. There are several requests you can make, one of them returns the address based on the latitude and longitude.
Here's an example:
GET https://atlas.microsoft.com/search/address/reverse/{format}?subscription-key={subscription-key}&api-version=1.0&query={query}
Just plug-in the values(format, subscription-key etc.).
format: Desired format of the response. Value can be either json or xml.
subscription-key: Azure Maps subscription key( you will get this through your Azure maps account ).
query: The applicable query specified as a comma separated string composed by latitude followed by longitude e.g. "47.641268,-122.125679".
You can use the above url( with the values plugged in ) to get the required response.