Geo Map? 🗺️

[nelsonic]

Can we plot hits on a map based on IP address?
e.g:

Todo

• Investigate the options for https://rapidapi.com/blog/ip-geolocation-api ... https://ipgeolocation.io
  • Consider using multiple APIs and round-robin the requests to avoid sending all our the to the same service. 💭
• Store the Lat/Lon in the DB in a new table:
  • useragent_id
  • lat_lon
  • geo_ip_api_id - IP address lookup service used
• Which Map UI should we use?

[nelsonic]

Should we just use Google Maps for MVP and then migrate if we exceed the free tier?

https://mapsplatform.google.com/pricing/

If there are more than 28k map views in a month it gets expensive quite fast:

I think we can easily have a global limit in our app that avoids going over the limits if this ever gets on the front page of Hackernews/Reddit. 💭

[nelsonic]

Looks like we might be able to use OpenStreetMap with Leaflet: https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet 💭