Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:48:00 -0000 (UTC)
Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> On 2020-04-11, Anil F Duggirala <anilduggirala@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Perhaps it simply looks up your IP address. Would I be right in
> >> > thinking that you are located in your DC?
> >> So. I right now physically in the beautiful city of Cali, Colombia.
> >> And
> >> Gnome Maps is showing my location precise to about a 10 meter
> >> radius of
> >> my actual location. That is my concern. Location Services are Off
> >> and have never been turned on on this machine.
> >>
> > 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.
> >
>
> BTW, I fed my IP address to this site
>
> https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address
>
> and it nails my location approximately within a 50 meter radius (I
> entered the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinate output into
> Google's search engine, which brings up the spot in their Maps app).
>
> I found this surprising (in my vast ignorance).
>
That one places me in South Norwood, which is at least in the correct
city.
--
Joe
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