Show HN: Geoground, get a map image based on user's IP

[jarquesp]

http://jarqu.es/Geoground/

[jarquesp]

I recently started working on a small app that I wanted to look slightly personalized per user by showing a faded image of their city as a background.

I couldn't find a service that did this for me, so I made a stupidly simple one. Simply use http://g.jarqu.es/IP and it'll return an image of the city based on the IP address.

[calamarain]

It shows me a blue field. Since it's not possible to zoom out, I cannot see which lake or sea it is.

[jarquesp → calamarain]

Blue image means either IP didn't translate to city, or city didn't translate to a static mappable image.