dwyl / hits

:chart_with_upwards_trend: General purpose hits (page views) counter

http://hits.dwyl.com

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Open nelsonic opened 9 years ago

nelsonic commented 9 years ago

Can we plot hits on a map based on IP address? e.g:

Todo

[ ] Investigate the options for https://rapidapi.com/blog/ip-geolocation-api ... https://ipgeolocation.io
- [ ] Consider using multiple APIs and round-robin the requests to avoid sending all our the to the same service. 💭
[ ] Store the Lat/Lon in the DB in a new table:
- [ ] useragent_id
- [ ] lat_lon
- [ ] geo_ip_api_id - IP address lookup service used
[ ] Which Map UI should we use?

nelsonic commented 2 years ago

Should we just use Google Maps for MVP and then migrate if we exceed the free tier?

If there are more than 28k map views in a month it gets expensive quite fast:

I think we can easily have a global limit in our app that avoids going over the limits if this ever gets on the front page of Hackernews/Reddit. 💭

nelsonic commented 2 years ago

Looks like we might be able to use OpenStreetMap with Leaflet: https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet 💭