On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:48:00 -0000 (UTC) Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > On 2020-04-11, Anil F Duggirala <anilduggir...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >> > > >> > Perhaps it simply looks up your IP address. Would I be right in > >> > thinking that you are located in your DC? > >> So. I right now physically in the beautiful city of Cali, Colombia. > >> And > >> Gnome Maps is showing my location precise to about a 10 meter > >> radius of > >> my actual location. That is my concern. Location Services are Off > >> and have never been turned on on this machine. > >> > > I should not have said a 10 meter radius, thats not fair. I would > > say, always, within a 50 meter radius. Which imo is pretty precise > > for IP based location. > > > > BTW, I fed my IP address to this site > > https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address > > and it nails my location approximately within a 50 meter radius (I > entered the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinate output into > Google's search engine, which brings up the spot in their Maps app). > > I found this surprising (in my vast ignorance). >
That one places me in South Norwood, which is at least in the correct city. -- Joe
