HTML5 geolocation vs Google Maps Geolocation api
<p>I'm a bit confused as to why I would choose to use the limited access <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation/intro" rel="noreferrer">Google Maps Geolocation API</a> over the free and (apparently) <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/Using_geolocation" rel="noreferrer">unlimited <code>navigator.geolocation</code></a> feature of HTML5?</p>

<p>As far as I can tell the only advantage of the Google version is it's increased support for browsers such as IE8. Am I missing something significant here? Or is there little difference?</p>

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<p>On further investigation we noticed that when we used <code>navigator.geolocation</code> in Chrome it actually makes a call to the Google api to get the information (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/2248484/542251">backed up by this answer from 6 years ago</a>). So this begs the question, is it still limited? If so by how much in what period?</p>