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  2. W3C Geolocation API - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3C_Geolocation_API

    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. Reverse geocoding - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_geocoding

    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 ...

  4. Comparison of web map services - Wikipedia

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    IE7+, Firefox 3.6+, Safari 5+, Google Chrome, Mobile Browsers (Internet Explorer, Apple iPhone, Google Android, Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Browser) IE10, IE11, Chrome, Firefox, Safari (g+) MS Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Seznam.cz (all latest or 1-2 previous versions)

  5. Google APIs - Wikipedia

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    Examples of these include Search, Gmail, Translate or Google Maps. Third-party apps can use these APIs to take advantage of or extend the functionality of the existing services. The APIs provide functionality like analytics, machine learning as a service (the Prediction API) or access to user data (when permission to read the data is given).

  6. Google Maps - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps

    Google Maps first started as a C++ program designed by two Danish brothers, Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, and Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, at the Sydney-based company Where 2 Technologies, which was founded in early 2003.

  7. 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.

  8. Web API - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_API

    An example of a popular web API is the Astronomy Picture of the Day API operated by the American space agency NASA. It is a server-side API used to retrieve photographs of space or other images of interest to astronomers, and metadata about the images. According to the API documentation, [15] the API has one endpoint:

  9. Open API - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_API

    An open API (often referred to as a public API) is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a (possibly proprietary) software application or web service. [1] Open APIs are APIs that are published on the internet and are free to access by consumers. [2]