ryanmahoski
Joined 19 years ago
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Comment · 15 years ago
But I agree with you, it's a ux dealbreaker for most situations. Solution: control the hardware. :)
Comment · 15 years ago
The opt-in button is messy but results are very precise and reliable. Some use cases warrant it, some do not. Maxmind claims 79% accuracy on a city level: is the google api worse? All other things being equal I would be inclined to pick the one that didn't require me to frequently install binary patches or update a database.
Comment · 15 years ago
Your best bet is html5 geolocation + modernizr.js + a shim. Browsers that support html5 geolocation will return highly accurate results while those that don't support it will fall back to calling the google maps api (ip to geo).
https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-Brow...