geolocation

Ip to country, city, lat, lang javascript service

What the best/accurate/free service to convert the IP from the following script to country/city/lat/long? $.getJSON("http://jsonip.appspot.com?callback=?", function(data){ alert( "Data Returned: " + data.ip); }); ...

Adding pins for nearby places (e.g. pizzerias) in MapKit

MapKit doesn't natively support local search results, so I'm looking for a way to get a list of local pizzerias (or coffee shops, or a specific retailer) via some http api call. The default google maps api requires javascript, so it's not clear to me how to integrate this into an iPhone app (without displaying a UIWebView). I have foun...

GPS Location takes a few seconds to be retrieved

Hi all, I have written an iPhone app that uses the iPhone's relative GPS location. I have a button in the user interface that does reverse geolocation (pulls the street name bases on the lat and long). The only problem is that the location object as retrieved by CLLocation *location = [[self locationManager] location]; is nil if th...

US State and Federal representatives by zip

Is there a service that will provide information on who the US State and Federal representatives are by zip+4? ...

How does wikitude know my location

I have just been to http://www.wikitude.me/ How does the site know the location of my laptop within 100 meters?? There is no GPS or anything that can give my location away on my laptop! ...

Reverse wikipedia geotagging lookup

Wikipedia is geotagging a lot of its articles. (Look in the top right corner of the page.) Is there any API for querying all geotagged pages within a specified radius of a geographical position? Update Okay, so based on lost-theory's answer I tried this (on dbpedia query explorer): PREFIX geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos...

How to get visitor location ( country, state and city ) using ASP.NET

I want to implement this in ASP.NET. I don't have any idea about how to do so, unfortunately. ...

Best way to get geo-location in Java

What is the best way to get geo-location in Java (freely if possible)? Update: Not from a GPS device. Basically how Firefox 3.5 / HTML 5 does it ...

Placing a web application on all continents. What is the best way?

Suppose I have to put x.com CMS app to Japan, Mexico, US, Australia, and to London. They all access a central MySQL database over IP. Is there something before the load balance or is it just you receive the IP on your code, geo-locate it and redirect to page to appropriate domain? Is there a way to have x.com to point to different IP'...

Full region name geodata, where to find?

Hey all, I used MindData's free database for blocks and location data, and then found a free table for full country names (all 249 countries, excluding the 5 disputed ones). My issue is that I'd like to find a table of all the full region names. For example, in the GeoIP location table, the region called MD would be Maryland, but there's...

Overview of how to develop LBS/GIS app in Java

I need to develop a location based extension to an existing app that will allow users to see all other users that are around them (within a fixed aerial distance). The existing app was developed using Axis (Web services) + Spring + Hibernate + MySQL. Requirements are: Java framework (preferably open-source unless commercial solution ...

Find current geographic coordinates from Python script

Hi, I'm tying to get a certain Python script (although I guess it isn't really the language that's going to matter here) to find out the current geographic location of the machine running it. As you might have guessed, it's a little script that reports my laptop's location when it boots and stuff :) Is there any free web service or API t...

Google Geolocation API library

Hey all, Is there a library out there that will get you your approximate location using the google service (https://www.google.com/loc/json)? Google Gears has support for it as described here http://code.google.com/p/gears/wiki/GeolocationAPI There is also good doco on the web service request/response schema. Firefox and iPhone Safari...

Why do I get asked twice to use GPS in my iPhone web application

I wrote a very small web application that sends your GPS coordinates to a script. If I load the site in Safari on the iPhone, it asks if it can use the GPS coordinates, and if I click yes, it sends the data. If I add a bookmark to the home screen so that it can run more like an application, when the code reaches navigator.geolocation.g...

Is there any possible way to find the name of the country using IP with scripting language PHP ?

Hi all Is there any possible way to find the name of the country using IP with scripting language PHP ? Thanks in advance Fero ...

find nearest places in iPhone

Hello all iPhone developers, I am developing an iPhone application. In this application i want to find nearest places related to current CLLocation that I am getting from the iPhone device. I have currently a database in different server . I am accessing it via .NET web service. In the database for testing purpose i have created so...

Get Place Location

I need put information about place, where is iPhone now, to UILable in my screen. [Country][City][Street] and maybe coordinates [lat][lng]. For example in my UILable should be: Your location is German, Berlin, Tiergarten Can someone show me really simple code how can i get such information that put in my UILable? ...

Plot GeoIP data on a World Map

Hi, I need a library (preferably written in Python) which is able to take a series of IP addresses (or geographic coordinates) and plots them on a World Map. I already found this one, but it outputs data as a .svg file and it's simply unable to cope with large data sets. Please note that I need something which can be downloaded and ...

Geocoding - Grouping multiple addresses into major cities

Been hunting through previous questions on Geocoding and while many are helpful I'm not finding one to my needs. I need to group multiple addresses to the nearest city centers. My only address information is city, country, and state (if applicable). For example, all addresses in San Francisco and within miles should be listed as San ...

What's the simplest way to get a user's latitude and longitude from an ip address

I always end up needing the user's location on most web projects that I work on. I've used Maxmind's GeoIp, but it involves you importing their dataset and it needs constant updating. There are also other free and paid services, but I just wanted something simple that I could add to any site in a matter of seconds. So this is sort of...