This document discusses geolocation and provides a brief history. It explains that geolocation is the identification of a real-world geographic location. It then provides a brief history of geolocation techniques from ancient times using smoke signals and celestial navigation to modern GPS systems. The document also discusses geolocation applications and APIs as well as geocoding locations and usi
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