Show HN: IP Sidekick, geolocation API with additional metadata

Re:Show HN: IP Sidekick, geolocation API with additional met... by b44rd on Friday August 18, 2017 @08:28AM (#15045509)

Cool stuff. Adding lat/lng to the dataset as well would be nice as well. Alternatively a lat/lng that can be associated to the country can be an idea. For example by using something like https://developers.google.com/public-data/docs/canonical/cou...

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Re:Show HN: IP Sidekick, geolocation API with additional met... by hboon on Friday August 18, 2017 @10:13AM (#15046340)

Yes, I plan to include a lat/long somewhere down the road when I can get it to be more accurate.

Slightly related, what can someone do with the lat/long in that data set? (since there's only a canonical lat/long for each country)

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Re:Show HN: IP Sidekick, geolocation API with additional met... by b44rd on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:54AM (#15063857)

Great! Lat/lng would of course be best implemented if kind of accurate. Ipinfo.io seems to do this quite well. I would happily use this to detect if somebody tries to spoof the info provided from window.gelocation.get/watch, whic is pretty sweet to utilize for anything that relates to maps. :)

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