Hi Marcus- I don't have further information; You could try asking in the AJAX APIs Help Group. As mentioned in the post, data isn't available everywhere, so this isn't a guaranteed solution for locating users.
- pamela On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > doesnt work for me - google.loader.ClientLocation is null (i'am > located in Germany). Is there more information available for which IPs > or locations the service does work? > > On 2 Sep., 03:43, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Hey folks-- >> >> Right, the IP data isn't everywhere (yet) - that's why I had fallback >> behavior in the demo app. It actually doesn't work for the internal >> Google IP, so I had to blind-code that demo. Fun times. :) >> >> Re privacy - I actually think most users would be fine with their city >> being known (estimated). This doesn't go any more precise than that. >> >> So now that you've all experimented with it, you can decide whether to >> recommend it to developers looking for this kind of functionality. For >> the record, it gets my apartment's location correctly. >> >> - pamela >> >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:47 AM, marcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Aug 28, 1:39 pm, "warden [Andrew Leach - Maps API Guru]" >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> I'm rather glad that at least in the UK, IP address is not accurate. >> >> > Same here! Otherwise might have to start using some of those free >> > proxy servers around the world. :-) >> >> > -- >> > Marcelo -http://maps.forum.nu >> > -- > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
