Every once in a while, you want to be able to locate a real spot somewhere on the face of the planet.

Pipeworks includes a cool cmdlert for just this purpose: Resolve-Location.

Resolve-Location uses two public web services to do GeoLocation, FreeGeoIP.net and Geocoder.us.

The first works off of IP addresses, and the second works only for US addresses.

Both resolve a location to a http://schema.org/Place. When you view a Place inside of a web page, it will automatically embed a map.

This first example will map an IP.

Resolve-Location 67.161.126.141            
            
            

And this will show you where the White House is.

Resolve-Location "1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC"