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  2. W3C Geolocation API - Wikipedia

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    The Geolocation API is ideally suited to web applications for mobile devices such as smartphones. On desktop computers, the W3C Geolocation API works in Firefox since version 3.5, Google Chrome, [6] Opera 10.6, [7] Internet Explorer 9.0, [8] and Safari 5. On mobile devices, it works on Android (firmware 2.0+), iOS, Windows Phone and Maemo.

  3. Address geocoding - Wikipedia

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    Address geocoding, or simply geocoding, is the process of taking a text-based description of a location, such as an address or the name of a place, and returning geographic coordinates, frequently latitude/longitude pair, to identify a location on the Earth's surface. [1]

  4. Reverse geocoding - Wikipedia

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    Reverse geocoding is the process of converting a location as described by geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude) to a human-readable address or place name. It is the opposite of forward geocoding (often referred to as address geocoding or simply "geocoding"), hence the term reverse. Reverse geocoding permits the identification of nearby ...

  5. Reverse lookup - Wikipedia

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    Reverse lookup is a procedure of using a value to retrieve a unique key in an associative array. [1] Applications of reverse lookup include reverse DNS lookup, which provides the domain name associated with a particular IP address, [2] reverse telephone directory, which provides the name of the entity associated with a particular telephone ...

  6. Help:Searching from a web browser - Wikipedia

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    Chrome, Chromium (the open source variant of Chrome), and Brave (a browser based on Chromium) all have an address bar can be configured to search Wikipedia. Click the kebab menu to the right of the search bar. Select Settings. Under Search engine, select Manage search engines.

  7. List of free and open-source software packages - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of free and open-source software (FOSS) packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software ; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source . [ 1 ]

  8. ZIP Code - Wikipedia

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    Each ZIP Code has one or more "postal city" names assigned to it. Since ZIP Code boundaries are based on the areas served by each physical post office, they often do not coincide with the boundaries of local government units. For example, suburban and unincorporated areas may share a postal city name with a neighboring municipality, even if no ...

  9. Google Code Search - Wikipedia

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    The code available for searching was in various formats including tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip, CVS, Subversion, git and Mercurial repositories. Google Code Search covered many open-source projects, and as such is different from the "Code Search for Google Open source projects" that was released afterwards. [1] [2]