BetterLocation

BetterLocation is very cool helper for converting various inputs into your favorite services as Google, Waze, Sygic and much more.

Key features

Parsing and eventually generating
- Coordinates: WGS84, USNG, MGRS, UTM, QTH (IARU), ...
- Codes: Geocaching GCxxx, What3Words, Open Location Codes (Plus Codes), Geohash, ...
- Various links: maps.google.com, Glympse.com, Mapy.cz, Intel.Ingress.com, Foursquare (city guide), ...
- Short links: goo.gl, bit.ly, tinyurl.com, t.co, tiny.cc, ...
- Telegram (live) location and venues
- EXIF from uncompressed images
Searching and sharing dynamically via Telegram inline using Google
Displaying various location metadata: address, elevation, timezone, DST, current time

Telegram bot

All these features are available as Telegram bot @BetterLocationBot, which can be used in private message or in even in chats.
Bot is highly configurable in terms how result message should look like including coordinates format, share links and drive buttons. If you really want, you can enable everything!

If location is valid, then it will respond with nicely formatted message. To prevent spam in chats, it will remain silent if no location in message was found.

Example screenshot from Telegram bot @BetterLocationBot

Discord bot

Feel free to add BetterLocation#0881 bot to your own server, join our alredy existing server BetterLocation or write him directly in private message.

If location is valid, then it will respond with nicely formatted message. To prevent spam in servers, it will remain silent if no location in message was found.

Discord bot is currently in public beta and in comparison to Telegram bot, some features might not yet be available.
Please test the bot and leave any feedback in our BetterLocation server.

Example screenshot from Discord bot BetterLocation#0881

Website

Website has some features too!

Any location on Earth can be represented as coordinates in WGS 84 (wiki). For example center of Prague in Czechia is located at 50.087451,14.420671, so URL is simply https://better-location.palider.cz/50.087451,14.420671 so to get some info about particular location, just open that link.

API

Very simple API is also available by adding ?format=json to the url, eg: https://better-location.palider.cz/50.087451,14.420671?format=json

Disclaimer

Although this is hobby project, some parts (bots, website, API) are already helping people and organizations around the world.
Anything can change at any time without warning, but I'm doing my best I can to not break anything and keep it running as smooth as possible. But just in case, if you want rocks-steady support, new feature or just ask for something, don't hesitate and contact me.