The present invention relates to a method for enabling a machine-to-machine (M2M) gateway to measure the position of an M2M device, and an apparatus therefore, and the method includes the steps of: receiving a request for generating a first resource representing the way of obtaining positional information form a first M2M device; if the generation request contains the information for indicating commonly based positional measurement, determining the device closest to the first M2M device; and setting the positional information of the closest device as the positional information for the first m2M device, wherein if the M2M gateway does not have network topological information, or at least one M2M device connected to the m2M gateway does not have positional information, the M2M topological information, and the at least one M2M device connected to the M2M gateway has positional information, the device having the minimum number of hops from the first M2M device among the at least one M2M device is determined as the closest device, and the first resource represents a data structure capable of being uniquely addressed using address information.