Activity Spotlight

Joe Steinbring

Locating your user in meatspace

CANCELED

geolocation

navigation

APIs

node.js

javascript

Prerequisites

You should know some javascript and have worked with APIs.

Take Aways

An understanding of how to find users
An understanding of how cool CloudFlare Workers can be
An understanding of how cool the haversine formula is

Supporting Resources

Where art thou: Converting addresses to latitude and longitude.

In this blog post, I go over how I used the US Gazetteer Files to build web services to convert from ZIP code or City and State to GPS coordinates.
Detecting the physical location by IP Address OR HTML5 geolocation

In this pen, I show how to implement a web service that can either determine the user's location based upon their IP address or based upon what location their web browser returns. The IP-based geolocation also includes "confidence level" that can be used in the listing.

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Robert Nicholson