Use HTML5 Geo location Service for original mapping center

[mohamedmansour]

When brought into the website, ask for permissions to use your location and post that as the first input (from) . So the user can enter just one input (to) that way the map would be more personalized.

[justinormont]

I think getting an IP based location is better. The accuracy is good enough, and we don't have to bother the user. This one is ok, but needs to be run server side. I'd prefer a client side one. http://freegeoip.net/

[jeremybenaim]

Server-side is faster though

[jeremybenaim]

I'll do that with a middleware

[jeremybenaim]

"Less XHR -> moar awesomeness"
-- a wise man

[jeremybenaim]

Cannot clone/commit anything but here the idea :

app.use(express.cookieParser()); 
app.use(express.session({ secret: 'keyboard cat' }));

app.get('/', setCityFromIp, function(req, res){
  res.render('index', { location: req.session.cityFromIp || 'nowhere' });
});

function setCityFromIp(req, res, next){
  req.session = req.session || {};

  if(typeof req.session.cityFromIp === 'undefined') {
    request('http://freegeoip.net/json/' + req.ip, function (error, response, body) {
      if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
        req.session.cityFromIp = JSON.parse(body).city;
        next();
      }
    });
  } else {
    next();
  }
}

[jeremybenaim]

This would trigger a request to the IP service for the first request, then store in into the session, so that we request the service only once

[mohamedmansour]

This will make our initial load depend on that external service. We should get an offline one that looks at IP map and returns the lat long.

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This would trigger a request to the IP service for the first request, then store in into the session, so that we request the service only once

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[jthiller]

At work we use MaxMind to get regions to send the user to the correct ecommence store.

MaxMind also has an open source set of data that might be worth looking into: http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geolite

[mohamedmansour]

@jthiller that would be a better approach because the in initial reaction is what counts. Performance matters for the initial payload.