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Tangentially related plug for a small site I built to tell you when golden hour is at your location https://whenisgoldenhour.com/ [1]

Would love to figure out how to incorporate a world dot map like this, but showing the two current golden hours (morning and evening) instead.

[1] https://github.com/ksho/whenisgoldenhour.com/

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Out of interest - how are you getting location? I didn't get a consent warning for client side geolocation and it seems accurate so it doesn't appear to be IP based (my public IP appears to be a few hundred miles south of my actual location).

Google Geolocation API

https://github.com/ksho/whenisgoldenhour.com/blob/master/pag...

I'm using the google geolocation API https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation... at https://github.com/ksho/whenisgoldenhour.com/blob/master/pag...

I've gone back and forth on replacing this with a browser-based location request so the user is aware what's going on -- the tradeoff being the friction of clicking the allow button.

Looks like it's using Google's geolocation API: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation...

Appears to be using google's geocoder [0]

My location resolved a province over, so I suspect it is at least somewhat IP-based (or IP + some other magic)

[0] https://github.com/ksho/whenisgoldenhour.com/blob/3c0d7f0acf...

I get 10:26pm until NaN:NaNpm Probably because I am in Northern Norway (Midnight Sun).

Whoa yeah, that bug makes sense. Thanks!

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