Facade not found by AliasLoader in Laravel

Question

I added a custom facade to my 'config/app.php' in my laravel project under 'aliases'

'GeoLocation' => '\App\Facades\GeoLocation',

The folder of the custom class is in 'app/Facades/GeoLocation.php' and the service provider in 'app/Providers/GeoLocationServiceProvider.php'

How do I need to state the correct alias in the app.php to be able to load the Facade correctly? The error message is:

ErrorException in AliasLoader.php line 63: Class 'Facades\GeoLocation' not found

This is my facade:

<?php namespace App\Facades;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade;

class GeoLocation extends Facade {
    protected static function getFacadeAccessor() { return 'geolocation'; }
}

Could it be that the return value of my service provider is incorrect?

<?php namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class GeoLocationServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider {

    public function register() {

        \App::bind('geolocation', function()
        {
            return new GeoLocation;
        });
    }
}

For a test I created another service provider called custom function:

<?php namespace App\Helpers;

class CustomFunction {
    //Generate random float between -1 and 1
    function f_rand($min = 0, $max = 1, $mul = 1000000) {
        if ($min>$max) return false;
        return mt_rand($min*$mul, $max*$mul) / $mul;
    }

    function test() {
        echo "OK";
    }
}

<?php namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class CustomFunctionServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider {

    public function register() {

        \App::bind('customfunctions', function()
        {
            return new CustomFunction;
        });
    }
}

Answer 1

the simplest way is to change the namespace to the file app/Facades/GeoLocation.php' to App\Facades;

then update aliase registration to

'GeoLocation' => 'App\Facades\GeoLocation',