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APIs Using the Geolocation API in JavaScript

Posted by mebula
mebula
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Can you get the user's current city name by using the Geolocation API?

I'm interested in getting the city name of the user, with the help of the Geolocation API. I have the longitude and latitude, but can I translate that into a city location? How can I go about getting this?

Thanks!

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,184 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,184 Points

You can't get city name directly from the geolocation API.

But you can get your location as latitude and longitude. And you can probably find a map service (possibly Google's) with an API that you can pass those coordinates to and get other information back including city name. You might use AJAX to do this.

And here's a documentation page about using Google's map API do to "reverse geocoding".

mebula
mebula
4,931 Points

Awesome thank you! I've just started learning about AJAX, and i'll definitely check out Google's API and see what I can do.