IPMapVisulaiser Submission

[thomphil]

Project Name / Title

IPMapVisualiser

Your Name / Title

thomphill

Project Description

Shows the location of an IP address on a map.

Enter an IP address and click 'Find' to search for its location. https://github.com/thomphil/IPMapVisualiser

What 3rd Party Web API do you plan to use?

IP Vigilante

• Link to the API documentation here: https://www.ipvigilante.com/api-developer-docs/

Which of the following describes you:

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[w3cj]

I like it! If leaflet doesn't work for you, you can try mapbox, they have a pretty good free tier.

As a stretch feature, you might try finding an API that will automatically get a users IP address so they can click a button like "What's my IP?" Or "Find me on the map"

Looks good overall. Go ahead and get started!

[w3cj]

How is the project going so far? Any updates?

[thomphil]

I was having issues with a CORS error but this seemed to be due to IPVigilante API so I've started using IP-API and it's been a lot more smooth sailing. I'm successfully logging the JSON response.

In regard to your suggestion to use mapbox, it looks like I'm going to have to use an API key, shall I just post it publicly? or am I missing a trick here?

[w3cj]

It looks like you found another API that does not have the cors issue?

For mapbox, the API key is meant to be public. There is no way to hide keys in front-end code.

[w3cj]

Any updates to share?

[w3cj]

Any updates to share?