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

[Nigel Magnay]

http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_my_ip got me pretty much exactly..

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> 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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