About What Is My Location
What Is My Location is an independent web project with one rule: work out everything possible in your browser, proxy what must be looked up, and store nothing about where you are. This page explains what the site does, how it works, how it is funded, and how to reach us.
What this site does
One tap answers “where am I?” with your address, GPS coordinates in 8 formats, elevation, timezone, sun and moon times — plus forty-odd companion tools: a compass, distance measuring, photo EXIF location, batch geocoding, a free developer API, and a coordinates database of world cities and landmarks. Everything is free, works in any browser in 36 languages, and requires no account.
How it works — and what never leaves your browser
Your coordinates are read by your browser's Geolocation API and rendered on your screen; they are not stored on our servers, and there are no third-party scripts watching you use the tools. Where an answer needs an external dataset — turning coordinates into an address, elevation, or a timezone — the lookup is proxied through this site so the third-party service never sees your browser or IP. The underlying data comes from open sources, principally OpenStreetMap contributors and open elevation and timezone datasets. The same privacy architecture is documented for AI assistants in our llms.txt and explained in depth in the geolocation privacy guide.
How the site is funded
The site is free for everyone and independently run. Where advertising appears, it is clearly marked, never placed above the answer you came for, and described plainly in the disclosure on the relevant pages; the developer API has generous free limits that may gain paid tiers for heavy commercial use. What is never for sale is the thing the site is built on: your location data — there are no accounts, no profiles, and nothing to sell.
Contact & responsible disclosure
Feedback, corrections, feature ideas and API questions are all welcome via the contact page. Security researchers: please use the address in our security.txt for responsible disclosure — reports are read and answered.
Advertising
Advertising is a runtime setting on this site, and it is currently switched off: no ad script is emitted on these pages and no advertising cookies are set. The only external resource your browser fetches is OpenStreetMap map tiles, and only when you view a map.
If advertising is enabled to help keep the tools free, this section changes with it: it is generated from the site's live configuration rather than written by hand, so what you read here always matches what actually runs.