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IP2Location vs Leaflet: What are the differences?
Developers describe IP2Location as "IP geolocation solution to identify visitor's geographical location". It is IP geolocation solution to identify visitor's geographical location, i.e. country, region, city, latitude & longitude of city, ZIP code, time zone, connection speed, ISP, domain name, IDD country code, area code, weather station code and name, mobile carrier, elevation and usage type information using a proprietary IP address lookup database and technology without invading the Internet user's privacy. The IP2Location solution is available as database, programming API and hosted solution. On the other hand, Leaflet is detailed as "JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps". Leaflet is an open source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. It is developed by Vladimir Agafonkin of MapBox with a team of dedicated contributors. Weighing just about 30 KB of gzipped JS code, it has all the features most developers ever need for online maps.
IP2Location belongs to "IP Address / WHOIS API" category of the tech stack, while Leaflet can be primarily classified under "Mapping APIs".
Some of the features offered by IP2Location are:
- Accurate Geolocation
- Supports IPv4 & IPv6
- Easy Integration
On the other hand, Leaflet provides the following key features:
- Tile layers
- Drag panning with inertia
- Scroll wheel zoom
Leaflet is an open source tool with 29.2K GitHub stars and 4.67K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Leaflet's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of IP2Location
Pros of Leaflet
- Light weight34
- Free29
- Evolutive via plugins12
- OpenStreetMap11
- Strong community10
- Choice of map providers7
- Easy API6
- Alternative to Google Maps3
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