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Re:Chrome's geolocation fails daily due to API limit by mastax on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @12:47AM (#14965623)
Interesting... if you make a chromium derivative, you need to pay for user's google API access. Or replace them with something else.
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Re:Chrome's geolocation fails daily due to API limit by cpeterso on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:55AM (#14966412)
You can use Mozilla's free geolocation service based on crowd-sourced location data for hundreds of millions of Wi-Fi access points, cell towers, and Bluetooth beacons. The website has a zoomable world map of network location coverage:

https://location.services.mozilla.com/map

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Re:Chrome's geolocation fails daily due to API limit by ktta on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:26AM (#14966042)
Or 'reverse engineer' it to make your own server side software.
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