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I am guessing this is why companies like Google have sourced their own info. Geo-locating by IP will always be an imperfect process because it's not actually g
by sbarre 13y ago
I am guessing this is why companies like Google have sourced their own info.
Geo-locating by IP will always be an imperfect process because it's not actually geolocating the IP, it's geolocating the block owner.
My downtown Toronto office geo-locates as Kansas City in some cases because the org who owns the block is there. And I assume they are not keeping their records up to date as we have a /8 and I think they should be registering a sub-block or whatever it's called..
But there you go.
- chrissnell 13y agoYou have a /8? Are you Xerox? General Electric? :)
- alextingle 13y agoThere aren't that many /8s. You could just go through them all and see which one is "in Kansas City".
- psionski 13y agoHP has two /8s... No idea what they're doing with >33 million IP addresses....
- sbarre 13y agoSorry, I reasoned that wrong, I meant a /24.. :-( Didn't mean to start a whole thing..
- LammyL 13y agoI would think geolocation would only get better as more people go mobile and their IP address (wifi or 3G) gets pinned to gps coordinates using location aware apps. Think about how much info google, apple, and others can collect with this, and build a database to sell.
- sbarre 13y agoYeah but those IPs are dynamic and change over time.. Unless the mobile providers (who are often national) restrict IPs to regions, you could have an IP be in one part of the country one week and in another part of the country the next, no?