IP address is by no means an assurance of current, accurate physical location. In the sense that country and state or province might be close enough, it's cert

IP address is by no means an assurance of current, accurate physical location. In the sense that country and state or province might be close enough, it's certainly not accurate enough to nail down county, or zip code level accuracy with more than a coin flip's reliability. Some IP addresses are well known, and bound to physical locations like places of business, retail store fronts, starbucks wi-fi, but that's not really the purview of home assistants, when discussing the meat of these services and their intentions.