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A cool feature would be privacy-preserving geolocation. Scan the WiFi networks from the client, pass it to your server and call the geolocation API from there. That way the upstream geo service provider wouldn't know which client it belongs to.

Otherwise you are just using the google/apple geo service. Granted this approach would work best in urban areas and wouldn't work at all in unpopulated areas. You'd need to fall back to GPS or the OS location service in some cases.

I don't know if this is practical, just an idea from a privacy conscious individual.



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