On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote: >> >> There is definately i way to identify the users location based solely on >> its ip address as this site does it: http://www.geoiptool.com/ >> > > Sure, and as long as you don't mind it being 1000 miles off, you too can > claim to do it too. When I go to that site, the little pin is in Kansas, > which is 1100 miles from where I live on the east coast of the US.
I have two IPs at this house, not counting the ones I could get off mobile connections (which are valid probably anywhere in the state, maybe further afield). One of them is plotted fairly accurately (not more than a couple of kilometers wrong), but the other is listed at Elizabeth and Bourke in the CBD... which is half an hour's train journey away from me. And the one that was wrong was the one that's actually an official static IP address (as opposed to a "technically dynamic but hasn't changed for a couple of years" address). Obligatory XKCD link: http://xkcd.com/713/ ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
