Location Intelligence
Check a user's location and VPN usage to restrict services
Overview
Use the Location Intelligence merit to accurately locate your users around the world. Location Intelligence can return information about a user's location based on IP address or GPS coordinates, whether they are using VPN or proxy, or are in a geo-restricted region.
Availability
🌎 Available globally
Features
Checks
Enable this check tracks a user's location through GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular networks.High-Accuracy Check
If this check is not enabled, location is tracked by default via IP address of the device used.
We can return the geographical address — country, state, city, and zip code — associated with the GPS settings on the user's device.
NOTE
To enable high-accuracy checks, contact your account manager via email
[email protected]
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IP Check
Default check. We return the geographic address — country, state, city, and zip code — matches the user's IP address.
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VPN/Proxy Check
We check whether a user is using a VPN or proxy to access your application and restrict those users from being verified.
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Geo-restriction Check
You can "geo-restrict" your users, which means that you can specify which countries or cities users are allowed to use your application from. Based on what countries or cities you restrict, we will check that a user's IP address is within those geographical boundaries.
Setup
There are 3 main steps to set up the Location Intelligence merit:
- Setup your metamap on the dashboard
- Integrate or use MetaMap's Direct Link
- Process verification results
Step 1: Set Up a Metamap
The first step to setting up a Location Intelligence merit is to create a new metamap in the Dashboard.
Once you've created a new metamap, add the Location Intelligence product to the user flow, then use the switches to enable or disable the following options:


Location Intelligence setup in the MetaMap dashboard.
Step 2: Integrate
Use the MetaMap Button SDK integration if you want to use MetaMap's verification tools but design your own experience for your users.
To implement this:
- Setup the metamap for Location Intelligence in the dashboard
- Install and implement an SDK framework
Step 3: Process Verification Results
In the dashboard, visit the Verifications tab, and click on a Verification to review the results.


Location intelligence results with latitude and longitude based on browser's IP address. User is in a geo-restricted region.
Updated 8 days ago