[OSM-dev] openstreetmap could start at user's approximate location using geo-ip

[Tom Hughes]

Sam Watkins wrote:

> I had an idea just a small thing, that when you first go to the
> openstreetmap.org site it would be nice if it would check your IP
> address using some geo-ip system and go to that location (zoomed out at
> world height) for a start, instead of always starting near england /
> europe.  Has this been proposed before?  I'd be happy to help implement
> that I guess it would be an easy thing to do.

Like it's been doing for the last few years you mean...

Note that it only does it if you don't have a position cookie from a 
previous visit - if you do have a position cookie then it uses that.

Tom

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