2009/11/29 Ian Eiloart <[email protected]>: > > The locations are very approximate. Usually, you'll get the right country. > Sometimes, you'll get the right county. I'm in Lewes, East Sussex, 60 miles > south of London. But my IP address is apparently located in Rickmansworth, > Herts. That's three counties away, on the other side of London 80 miles away. > My guess is that any plusnet subscriber would be located in Rickmansworth. >
There are paid for services that usually manage a better guess than that. They buy in data from other sources that shows geographical indications of where you people using your IP address claim to be and can often do a better job of pinpointing than just using your ISP's known location. For what I hope are obvious reasons its all hit and miss, but then it has to be. Its always been a problem since we started moving away from directly connected terminals (whose location you knew) and unless people tell you truthfully where they are you can't know. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
