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Your IP address is the return address the rest of the internet uses to send packets back to you. Geolocation services keep databases that map blocks of IPs to the cities the ISP that owns them serves. When the page checks your IP, what comes back is a guess based on those records — typically your country and a city that is somewhere within 25 km of you. It is not your street and it is not your name. The accuracy depends on how recently the database was refreshed and how your ISP routes traffic.

When you allow precise location, the browser asks the operating system for a coordinate. On a phone outdoors, the OS uses the GNSS chip — the same hardware Google Maps uses — to triangulate against satellites from the GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, and BeiDou systems. The result is usually accurate to a few meters. Indoors or on a laptop, the OS falls back to whatever it has: nearby Wi-Fi access points cross-referenced against a worldwide database, the cell tower you are connected to, or your IP. The page receives whichever the OS thinks is the best answer.

A pair of numbers like 31.5497, 74.3436 is not very useful on its own, so the page sends them to a reverse-geocoding service that returns the matching city, region, and country. We use BigDataCloud as the first choice and OpenStreetMap Nominatim as the fallback when BigDataCloud is rate-limited. Both have their own privacy policies, which the Privacy Policy page links to. The coordinate goes out, the place name comes back, and nothing is stored on our side.

GPS measures your position from physics — time of flight from satellites whose orbits are known. IP geolocation looks up a database row. The first can be accurate to meters; the second is rarely better than the city. When the two disagree it is almost always because the IP database is stale, you are on a VPN, or your mobile carrier is routing traffic through a regional gateway in a different city. Trust the GPS reading when you have it. Treat the IP reading as a hint.

The coordinate stays in your browser tab. The reverse-geocoding request sends only the coordinate to the third-party service; it does not include any identifier we control. We do not keep a database that tracks visitors. The hosting provider (Cloudflare) keeps short-lived request logs the way any web host does, and Google AdSense — once approved — sets its own cookies for advertising. The Privacy Policy spells out what each service receives.

When you click the location button, your browser asks the operating system for your position. The OS combines what it can: GPS satellite signals, the Wi-Fi networks visible to your device, the mobile cell you are connected to, and your IP address. It picks the most accurate answer available and hands a single coordinate back to the page. Outdoors on a phone, that is usually 3 to 5 meters. On a laptop indoors, it can be 25 meters or more.

Four common reasons. First, you might be indoors, so the OS is using Wi-Fi or IP instead of real GPS. Second, you might be on a VPN, which makes the IP fallback look like the VPN exit. Third, on mobile data the carrier sometimes routes everyone through one regional gateway, so the IP guess can be a city or two off. Fourth, you might have denied the precise location prompt earlier without realising it, which forces the page back to the IP guess.

No. The coordinate the page reads stays inside your browser tab. The only thing we send to a third party is the coordinate itself to OpenStreetMap or BigDataCloud, so they can return the city and country name. Once you close the tab there is nothing left on our side to keep or delete.

Three decimals is roughly a city block. Four is a building. Five is a parking space. Six is around 11 centimeters, which is finer than any consumer GPS chip can deliver under normal conditions. We display six because it is the standard storage format, but treat the last digit as noise.

It will work, but accuracy drops sharply because most laptops do not have a GPS chip. Instead the OS falls back to looking up the Wi-Fi access points your laptop can see against Apple and Google databases. In a city with dense Wi-Fi coverage that gets you within about 25 meters. In a rural area with little Wi-Fi, the result might be off by several kilometers because all the OS has left is your IP address.

It changes the IP-based fallback completely but does not touch your real GPS reading. If you have allowed precise location, the page will still see your actual position — the VPN cannot rewrite a signal coming from a satellite. If you have denied precise location, the page will show whichever city your VPN exit is in.

In Chrome, click the small lock icon to the left of the URL, choose Site settings, and change Location from Block to Allow. Reload the tab. Firefox and Edge work the same way. On Safari, the permission lives in Safari → Settings → Websites → Location.

The site is supported by ads served through Google AdSense. There is no paid plan. Everything the site does — reading your location, converting coordinates, displaying the map — is free and works without an account.