On 2020-04-11, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Vi, 10 apr 20, 08:24:41, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: >> >> I don't know if somehow ISPs here have a more detailed (precise >> location) database based on IP, or if that is possible at all.
It would be interesting to know if there is an appreciable difference in precision between Maps and Night Light before you fixed the latter's imprecision (about which you complained in another thread here) by presumably feeding it manually your latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates. Because one would assume both apps would use the same IP method to locate the user for the case of a user whose geolocation services have been toggled off (or never toggled on) in his privacy settings. Of course, David W. is right (and also Wright!) to say we don't know what you mean, exactly---at what level of granularity is Maps locating you precisely (country/city/neighborhood/street/apartment building/etc...)? Rather than positing some egregious violation of user configuration on the part of Maps, I was theorizing in an earlier post that a precision on its part that couldn't be explained by simply inference from your IP address might possibly be explained by Night Light sharing the coordinates you provided it not long ago (if indeed you did do that, as you never stated this explicitly, either). Whether that would be a bug or not remains unclear to me. > As far as I can tell it depends a lot on the ISP. > > My current one apparently maintains its database down to city level...=20 > and then allocates those IPs dynamically all over the country :)=20 > > My previous ISP was allocating pseudo-static IPs with location as=20 > accurate as city area. > > Kind regards, > Andrei > --=20 > http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser > > --dsd7ekpr465t763f > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" > > > --dsd7ekpr465t763f-- > > --
