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

[Tom Hughes]

Shaun McDonald wrote:

> I'll just add that it does it on a country level, rather than city or  
> state level.

Indeed - the free GeoIP databases aren't really good enough to do much 
more than that. I'm not even sure the commercial ones are really, though 
they will probably claim otherwise.

Tom

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