ypodim

this sounds like, "knives are terrible tools because they can easily be used to kill tens of people"

I see your point. However, at that level CSS would be rather irrelevant it was my impression that the site meant to introduce CSS too. Anyway, not worth splitting hairs over this.

What would be more "beginner" than that?

I wish I had this guide 4 years ago :(

That's already there ;) You can get any location in JSON, given the generated key: eg. http://geo.gy/LmZW/json

Indeed, that's on my todo list.

Thanks for the heads-up. Being based on HTML5, geo.gy is platform-independent