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Nope, maxmind detects my location incorrectly (25 miles off).

• byoung2 15y ago
  Keep in mind that this would be one of many data points Google pieces together to get the most accurate location. MaxMind is 1000 feet off for me (likely because the data was incomplete because of privacy scrubbing), but spot on with Google Maps (down to my location within my condo complex). Some other data points that would give Google this information are Google Maps on my Android phone. With explicit permission to read and report my coarse (network-based) and fine (GPS) location, it would be able to read any WiFi access point in range of my phone and link that with my exact GPS location and report that to Google. I leave this enabled at all times for Google Latitude. I would imagine that anyone with a smartphone and Google Maps who came near enough to your house could have reported your access point and GPS location to Google. Even if you don't have WiFi, if the neighbors on both sides of you do, they could extrapolate that to your house in the middle.