[Openstreetmap] Use dynamic location on the OSM front page?

Frank Mohr f_mohr at yahoo.de
Tue Aug 2 22:42:28 BST 2005


Amaury Jacquot wrote:
> nick at hogweed.org wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday 02 August 2005 19:50, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>>
>>> After being asked today about where to find mapping from IP address to
>>> location, I rediscovered <URL:http://www.hostip.info/>, a web service
>>> doing this mapping.
>>
>>
>>
>> Rather than Southampton, it thinks I'm in Betws-y-coed... close on a
>> global scale I guess :-)
>>
>> Nick
> 
> 
> slap your ISP for not declaring the IP ranges properly

same here ... the web page just guesses cities in germany on every call
ranging from 70km to several 100km

even a whois on my providers domain returns better results (30km away)

frank

	

	
		
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