> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > cruniching the data that says "Of 10 sites that I saw this IP address access > > and provide a clearing for the credit card transaction, 9 ended up being > > within 3 miles radius of ZZZZ. Lets put a tag on that" > > I would be REALLY interested to know how you measure mileage with IP. > > I tried 6 IPs with one of these locator services and one was off by over > 2,000 miles, one by 150 miles and 2 by 10 miles.
Again, majority of companies that have that data will not provide it to you for free. In a case of someone like Amazon, they probably wont measure mileage. Rather whey would flag transactions that make no geographic sense and pull them for separate processing. ALex
