I am trying to figure out an alternative way of getting a user's location when your browser (firefox, chrome, etc) blocks geolocation and I wanted to call an API to get the user's location based on their IP address. However, I can't figure out how to do this. It seems that my function to handle errors does not pick up the browser blocking geolocation. What can I do? I have just started learning HTML5 and Javascript. Here is an example of my code:
function getUserLoc() {
if (navigator.geolocation) {
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(showPosition,noGeo,geo_options);
} else {
noGeo();
}
}
function showPosition(position) {
loc = position.coords.latitude,position.coords.longitude;
}
function noGeo(error) {
<!-- Here I would insert the code to get the location via the user's IP address -->
}