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Nate Russ
Teen Coder / Adventurer
Is there a way to get an estimate of user's location and set the map defaults to a particular area? What are the alternatives?
Dong Nguyen
Web Developer
I often use 3rd tools like:
It's easy to build your own similar API with a free geo database somewhere and several lines of code.
Sometimes, there is no way to detect user's location.
Anthony Lapenna
Open-source enthusiast
freegeoip gives the ability to host the API on premise, it's awesome !
Alla Biloshapko
Creator, learns coding and APIs
Helpful list! Freegeoip is now resumed, ipstack com is available instead.
Also, I like this new service: abstractapi.com/ip-geolocation-api
I'm forgot that I had one :)
https://github.com/ndaidong/geo-localtion
Dong Nguyen
Web Developer
I often use 3rd tools like:
It's easy to build your own similar API with a free geo database somewhere and several lines of code.
Sometimes, there is no way to detect user's location.