About Places

Why this exists

Most “find a place” and coordinate tools are slow, cluttered, or hide simple answers behind sign-ups and pop-ups. Places bundles the everyday place and travel utilities — finding coordinates, addresses, distances, time zones, postal codes and elevation — into one fast, clean, free site that respects your privacy.

How it works

Every page is a static file served from Cloudflare’s global edge, so it loads fast anywhere. The tools run in your browser. The only server touch is a tiny edge function that reads your approximate location from your IP and a thin, cached proxy for place search, elevation and time zones — nothing about you is stored.

Our data sources

Place search and addresses come from OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim service. Elevation comes from Open-Meteo (SRTM-based digital elevation models). Time zones come from Open-Meteo’s time-zone data. Your approximate location comes from Cloudflare’s edge network (request.cf). All coordinates use the WGS84 datum. We name our sources because honesty about accuracy is the point.

Sister sites

Need to read or convert GPS coordinates? See locations.app. Looking for the full location toolbox? Try mylocationapp.com.

Contact

Questions, corrections or privacy requests? Email hello@places.app and we’ll get back to you.