I'm trying to extend the native geolocation function
if(navigator.geolocation) {
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position) {
var latitude = position.coords.latitude;
var longitude = position.coords.longitude;
});
}
so that I can use the visitor's country name (perhaps return an informative array).
So far all I've been able to find are functions that display a google maps interface but none actually gave what I want, except for this library which worked well in this example but for some reason didn't work on my computer. I'm not sure why that went wrong there.
Anyways, do you know how I can simply return an array containing information like country, city, etc. from latitude and longitude values?
You can use my service, http://ipinfo.io, for this. It will give you the client IP, hostname, geolocation information (city, region, country, area code, zip code etc) and network owner. Here's a simple example that logs the city and country:
$.get("https://ipinfo.io", function(response) {
console.log(response.city, response.country);
}, "jsonp");
Here's a more detailed JSFiddle example that also prints out the full response information, so you can see all of the available details: http://jsfiddle.net/zK5FN/2/
The location will generally be less accurate than the native geolocation details, but it doesn't require any user permission.