Geolocation using Google Maps API

- [Narrator] When the simple IP lookup…didn't give me an accurate location,…or a measure of its accuracy,…I decided to turn to Google's geolocation services,…because I rely on their maps all of the time,…and Google always seems to know where I am.…The particular API I was interested in…is the Google Maps geolocation API,…which can find a location based on information…from cell towers and WiFi nodes.…

According to the documentation,…to use the geolocation API,…all I need to do is make a POST request to this URL…and include my Google API key.…The request body will need to be formatted as JSON,…with a number of optional fields to choose from.…I wrote my solution to run on my laptop,…which has WiFi, but it does not have cell service.…I only ended up configuring two of these top-level fields.…

I set the considerIp field to true…so the program will fall back…to using IP geolocation if WiFi is not available,…and I passed it an array of WiFi access points.…For each access point, the only required field…is the MAC address, but I chose to also include…