How to display the cookies consent bar according to the visitor’s location

This tutorial shows how to display the cookies consent bar according to the visitor’s location usign the MapTiler Geolocation API.

  1. Copy the following code, paste it into your favorite text editor, and save it as a .html file.

  2. Include the cookie consent bar JavaScript and CSS files in the <head> of your HTML file. To display the cookie consent bar, we will use a third-party library (you can use any library you like or implement your own). In the example we are using Osano Cookie Consent.

  3. Call MapTiler’s Geolocation API to get information about the visitor’s location based on the IP address.

  4. Replace YOUR_MAPTILER_API_KEY_HERE with your actual MapTiler API key.

  5. Get the user’s location country code.

  6. Initialize the cookie consent bar using the user’s country code.

Learn more

Check out the tutorials How to center map based on visitor’s location, How to display disputed borders based on visitor’s location and How to change the map labels language based on visitor’s location.

Visit the MapTiler Geolocation API reference for Geolocation response object properties. Like for example, the name of the country, the city, etc.