Geolocation APIs

Geolocation APIs are a set of protocols, routines, and tools used by developers to build software applications that require geolocation data. Geolocation, in this context, refers to the identification or estimation of the real-world geographic location of an object, such as a radar source, mobile phone, or internet-connected computer terminal.

A geolocation API provides geographical location data based on various inputs, such as an IP address, a cell tower ID, or even data from a GPS satellite. They can provide the latitude and longitude coordinates of a location, and often additional information such as the city, state, country, postal code, time zone, and other related details.

This information can be used in a multitude of ways across different sectors – from delivering targeted content based on a user’s location, calculating distances between two points, and tracking the location of devices in real-time, to more advanced uses such as predictive...