Years ago I made an app that did exactly this as my first attempt at mobile development. It's quite easy to do, as (at least at the time) wikipedia provided a free API and I was able to get another one which got coordinates from an entered address. It's not on the Google play store anymore as I didn't keep it up to date with the development requirements Google has added over the years, but it could easily be recreated by a programmer with interest.
update worked in Firefox on iOS. Safari is not asking permission for location and is just denying it. This happened even when I turned off content blockers and manually gave permission for location.
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This is such a fun feature, thank you for sharing!
That's awesome. Bookmarked!
Kinda wish I could just give it an address, rather than sharing my phone location data.
Years ago I made an app that did exactly this as my first attempt at mobile development. It's quite easy to do, as (at least at the time) wikipedia provided a free API and I was able to get another one which got coordinates from an entered address. It's not on the Google play store anymore as I didn't keep it up to date with the development requirements Google has added over the years, but it could easily be recreated by a programmer with interest.
Share the code!
Here it is: https://github.com/pkeg/mobi.thisplace
Almost certainly doesn't work anymore and probably wasn't built well in the first place. It was one of my first projects, haha.
Doesn’t seem to work on iPhone.
update worked in Firefox on iOS. Safari is not asking permission for location and is just denying it. This happened even when I turned off content blockers and manually gave permission for location.
It worked on my iPhone after allowing location services.
Crazy interesting. Thanks for sharing! Had no idea it existed.
Neat as heck
Whoa, thanks that's amazing
Now wut