IP2Location vs OpenLayers: What are the differences?

IP2Location: 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; OpenLayers: A high-performance, feature-packed library for all your mapping needs. An opensource javascript library to load, display and render maps from multiple sources on web pages.

IP2Location belongs to "IP Address / WHOIS API" category of the tech stack, while OpenLayers 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, OpenLayers provides the following key features:

• Tiled Layers - Pull tiles from OSM, Bing, MapBox, Stamen, MapQuest, and any other XYZ source you can find. OGC mapping services and untiled layers also supported.
• Fast & Mobile Ready - Mobile support out of the box. Build lightweight custom profiles with just the components you need.
• Vector Layers - Render vector data from GeoJSON, TopoJSON, KML, GML, and a growing number of other formats.

OpenLayers is an open source tool with 7.44K GitHub stars and 2.4K GitHub forks. Here's a link to OpenLayers's open source repository on GitHub.