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Why don't they return 00.000000,00.000000 or the GPS position for the North Pole instead? Would be a lot less confusing that the data was void.
by Raphmedia 10y ago
Why don't they return 00.000000,00.000000 or the GPS position for the North Pole instead? Would be a lot less confusing that the data was void.
- jessaustin 10y agoIn that case they'd be getting sued by various police agencies who have wasted money on arctic trips, as well as the survivors of various officers who were eaten by polar bears.
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- dpiers 10y agoExcept 0,0 is not in the Arctic, it's a little bit off the coast of Nigeria. And, the problem with returning Null or 0,0 is that it implies there is no information available. There is still value in having a default location of the country of an IP is known, but the location is not. If you work with MaxMind a lot, you know that 38,-97 is a US IP with unknown location.
- polartx 10y ago>Except 0,0 is not in the Arctic, it's a little bit off the coast of Nigeria. Amusingly, that would actually lead many agencies to a closer proximity of the scammers they're searching for.
- maxxxxx 10y agoAt least nobody would get eaten by polar bears.
- jessaustin 10y agoHahaha, I think "the North Pole" is in the Arctic.
- pas 10y agoWho looks at lat-lng anyhow? Prefixes have proper fields for addresses, or even comments. There are no objects for individual IP addresses anyhow. MaxMind is good for a quick country of origin assignment, and that's it. Their city level DB is just smoke and mirrors.
- grkvlt 10y agoHe did say "or the GPS position for the North Pole" though, as well as (0,0)
- K2L8M11N2 10y agoNot all IPs are in the USA, so an output of "Somewhere in the United States" is way better than "Somewhere in the world".