Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:32:31 -0000 (UTC)
Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> On 2020-04-11, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 09:49:50AM -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> I should not have said a 10 meter radius, thats not fair. I would
> >> say, always, within a 50 meter radius. Which imo is pretty precise
> >> for IP based location.
> >
> > Just for kicks, I entered my external IP address into
> > https://geoip.com/ and it misses me by roughly 3km.
>
> I wanted to try this myself but got a
>
> 403 Permission Denied
> You do not have permission for this request
>
>
It's a bit flaky. Here is whatismyip.com:
City: Sheffield
State: England
Sheffield is a city well into the North of England.
Here's geoip.com:
United Kingdom
ENG
England
Washington
50.9049
-0.40649
This isn't the original Washington, which is in East Anglia, this is a
tiny village near the south coast of England.
And I live in the easternmost London Borough. So much for accuracy. My
ISP's national HQ is in Sheffield, but where the hell Washington comes
from, I don't know.
--
Joe
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