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Re:BugMeNot days numbered?What I would give out freely is my GPS coordinate, to single degree precision, which is sufficient to place me within a mild climate of the Pacific Northwest: bring on the ads for lattes, gortex jackets, and hiking boots.
But you probably already do - your IP address gives a good estimate. For example, this got me to within 1 degree. And I've seen banner ads inviting me to... associate... with women from, coincidentally enough, my city. Granted, this isn't free for the advertiser, but it's certainly less intrusive, and requiring a login isn't free either.
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What you thought.
Did you think it was like this? IP Address Locator
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geourl mapping using php and mysql
Is it the same as this http://www.networldmap.com/TryIt.htm of is it different ?
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Net World Map
Related Link: NetWorldMap, a n interesting project to map IP addresses and physical locations (within 3-4 hours drive).
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Re:Good and bad?
Strangely enough, I can access the UKbetting.com, even though I am located in the united states, and newtorldmap pinpointed my location within a few miles.
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Re:Geographic IP LocationFrom: Net World Map
Number of locations following:
Is proxy:Unknown
At this time, the location of nnn.nn.nnn.nn is unknown.
From: VisualRoute
Analysis: IP Packets are being lost past network "XX-XXX-nnnnnn" at hop 18. There is insufficient cached information to determine the next network hop at hop 19.
Note that the IP is in Ireland (and the VisualRoute traceroute does have a few give-aways in it for someone who knows Irish ISPs). I continued to check a few more static IPs we have (mainly from one ISP) with the results that of the 4 on the one ISP, Net World Map reported 2 correctly (Dublin, Ireland), reported 2 as unknown and the final one as in Puerto Plata Dominican Republic! VisualRoute looks slashdotted to me but so far it has failed one, looped on the next (without recognising where it was stuck in a major Irish ISP) and one found to us in terms of the network but no location.
Doesn't look too useful to me! Are people really betting (sic) their businesses on this? I think that every self respecting advocate of all the net stands for should be doing everything in their power to destroy these systems (get them down to 50% accuracy and they are useless for making decisions) before the internet collapses under the weight of litigation it could bring.
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Geographic IP Location
I almost loathe to post the URL because I don't want it to get slashdotted, but one of my favourite online utilities is:
The Net World Map
Just follow that link, type in an IP (defaults to yours), and it does a reasonably good job at locating the address.
Does anyone else have a link to another public service like that? -
Try it for yourselfGo here and find out for yourself how useful geographic addressing through IP address can be.
I first saw this site about a year ago, and at that time gave it my address and geographic location to put into its database, thinking, "hey, this is kinda nifty."
This afternoon, it took one look at my current IP (probably not the same one I gave it last time, but it shouldn't be vastly different), and immediately gave me three incorrect guesses as to where I'm physically located. None was within 300 miles, but they were all within the continental United States, so I guess the site should get some credit.
Anyone else note that