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22nd August 2008 - Link Blog

Get Lat Lon now has a "Get my location (by IP)" button. It took all of five minutes to add using the new google.loader.ClientLocation API. The button is only visible if your location can be resolved.

Posted 22nd August 2008 at 10:16 am

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