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This is such a fun feature, thank you for sharing!

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Kinda wish I could just give it an address, rather than sharing my phone location data.

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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.

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Share the code!

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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.

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That’s awesome. Bookmarked!

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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.

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It worked on my iPhone after allowing location services.

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Neat as heck

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