Pretty sure those services infer location based on data collected from
3rd parties. Cell phone data, what WiFi SSID's you see, Cell phone
locations, etc. Often they can get it exactly right, sometimes they
only get the right state. There's someplace in the middle of Kansas
which is the gelocation coordinate for IP's where they only know it's in
the USA and can't be any more sure than that
If they're wrong now, they'll become right over time as the companies
get usage data.
On 1/8/2021 1:37 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
Is there just one geo location database?
Is there a cost to get your IPs put in the database(s)?
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