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.
12 Comments
ShustOne@lemmy.one · 13 pts · 2y
This is such a fun feature, thank you for sharing!
pwnicholson@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
That's awesome. Bookmarked!
the_otterman_empire@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Kinda wish I could just give it an address, rather than sharing my phone location data.
snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 2y
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.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y
Share the code!
snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y
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.
M500@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
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.
MrEC@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
It worked on my iPhone after allowing location services.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 2y
Crazy interesting. Thanks for sharing! Had no idea it existed.
LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
Neat as heck
Varyk@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Whoa, thanks that's amazing
tisktisk@monero.town · 1 pts · 2y
Now wut