7 Things You Should Know About the Geolocation API
Many websites don't need to know anything about the geographical location of their visitors. In certain cases, however, this knowledge can be useful and can be used to enhance the user experience. This knowledge can also be used to integrate special features into your application. Consider, for example, a company selling some electrical equipment. By knowing the user's geographical location you can suggest the nearest store where they can visit, and purchase the products. To provide such suggestions it is important to capture the user's location. To that end, the Geolocation API allows you to do just that. This article examines seven key things you should know about the Geolocation API in order to use it in your web applications.
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