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The "you are here" marker doesn't appear very accurate. It placed me in North America, but I'm in Sweden... Edit: zooming in it actually places me in Sweden an
by amarant 4y ago
The "you are here" marker doesn't appear very accurate. It placed me in North America, but I'm in Sweden...
Edit: zooming in it actually places me in Sweden and even gets my ISP right. But still categorises me as North America. Did geography change while I slept?
- MaxMatti 4y agoLooks like it just takes the category with he highest share of a block to label that block when you zoom out.
- _han 4y agoI assumed the initial marker is placed where the website is hosted from, not where the client is connecting from. (For me it was also in North America whereas I am in the Netherlands.)
- bouncingbunny 4y agoProbably due to IP transfers between regions. The original /8 was assigned to ARIN (which handles IP addresses in the US), and then later a more specific subnet (like a /16) was transferred to RIPE (which handles the European region). So while the big block is correctly shown as North America, the smaller ones shouldn't be.
- laci37 4y agoI looked up my university's /8 block, it's listed as North America, Hungary, BME.