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

[Tom Lancaster]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> 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.


FWIW I'm in Vietnam and I am always presented with the map of Europe.

Tom


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