If you ever find yourself in a situation where you don’t really know where you are, I got you covered!
This small function will try to get the longitude/latitude coordinates and use the OpenStreetMap API to perform a reverse lookup to get address information for your current location.
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| function Get-GeoLocation { | |
| <# | |
| .SYNOPSIS | |
| Get current location. | |
| .DESCRIPTION | |
| This function tries to get the latitude and longitude coordinates of the current location, | |
| and will look up those coordinates on OpenStreetMap to get address information. | |
| .EXAMPLE | |
| Get-GeoLocation | |
| Will try to get address information about your current location. | |
| .EXAMPLE | |
| Get-GeoLocation -LatLon | |
| Will return the Latitude and Longitude of your current location. | |
| .NOTES | |
| Author: Øyvind Kallstad | |
| Version: 1.0 | |
| Date: 09.08.2016 | |
| .LINK | |
| https://communary.net/ | |
| #> | |
| [CmdletBinding()] | |
| param ( | |
| # Number of times the function tries to get the coordinates. Default value is 4. | |
| [Parameter()] | |
| [int] $NumTries = 4, | |
| # Number of milliseconds to sleep between each try. Default value is 1000. | |
| [Parameter()] | |
| [int] $SleepBetweenTries = 1000, | |
| # Use this switch to indicate that you want the Latitude and Longitude returned. | |
| # Address lookup will not be performed. | |
| [Parameter()] | |
| [Alias('ll')] | |
| [switch] $LatLon | |
| ) | |
| try { | |
| Add-Type –AssemblyName 'System.Device' | |
| } | |
| catch { | |
| Write-Warning 'Unable to load the needed assembly (System.Device).' | |
| break | |
| } | |
| $watcher = New-Object –TypeName System.Device.Location.GeoCoordinateWatcher –ArgumentList 'High' | |
| [void]$watcher.TryStart($true, [TimeSpan]::FromMilliseconds(1000)) | |
| $count = 0 | |
| do { | |
| $count++ | |
| Start-Sleep –Milliseconds $SleepBetweenTries | |
| } while (($watcher.Position.Location.IsUnknown) -or ($count -ge $numTries)) | |
| if ($watcher.Position.Location.IsUnknown) { | |
| Write-Warning 'Couldn''t get coordinates.' | |
| } | |
| else { | |
| $coord = $watcher.Position.Location | |
| if (-not ($LatLon)) { | |
| $url = "http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?format=json&lat=$($coord.Latitude.ToString().Replace(',','.'))&lon=$($coord.Longitude.ToString().Replace(',','.'))&zoom=18&addressdetails=1" | |
| try { | |
| $result = Invoke-RestMethod –Uri $url | |
| Write-Output ($result.address) | |
| } | |
| catch { | |
| Write-Warning $_.Exception.Message | |
| } | |
| } | |
| else { | |
| Write-Output ([PSCustomObject][Ordered] @{ | |
| Latitude = $coord.Latitude | |
| Longitude = $coord.Longitude | |
| }) | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| New-Alias –Name whereami –Value Get-GeoLocation –Force |
Communary 