Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

[Michael Howard <mike@dewberryfields.co.uk>]

On 13/04/2020 14:53, Celejar wrote:
> 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).
> Both maxmind and geoip.com put me about three miles from my actual
> location (both at the same point).
>
> Celejar

maxmind put's me 134.7 miles away from my location.

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Michael Howard