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Ask HN: Accuracy of ip to geo location?
in regards to ip to geolocation mappings like the one from maxmind?
how accurate are they?
- stephenr 10y agoI don't know about in the USA, but given the types of consumer access in use today, I wouldn't rely on it much beyond the country or perhaps state/province level. For consumer level ISP's, you're likely to just get the location of the ISP headquarters. If you need more accurate user location, I'd suggest looking into device location APIs - they aren't available all the time, and the user can reject/deny the request, but if accurate location is important and actually gives benefit to the user, that's likely a better solution.
- T-A 10y agoRight sub-continent? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/10/lawsuit-how-a-quiet-kansas-home-wound-up-with-600-million-ip-addresses-and-a-world-of-trouble/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/1...
- wprapido 10y agothey could be highly inaccurate. i had experience of the actual location being as far as 500 miles away from the IP's location
- tmaly 10y agoI was hoping to get at least within 60 km
- ramtatatam 10y agoCan go as bad as 50km off in a country with good infrastructure (United Kingdom).