On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Νικόλας <ni...@superhost.gr> wrote: > Στις 13/7/2013 2:04 πμ, ο/η Dennis Lee Bieber έγραψε: >> >> On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 02:47:38 +1000, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> >> declaimed the following: >> >>> >>> Oh, and just for laughs, I tried a few of my recent mobile IP >>> addresses in the GeoIP lookup. All of them quoted Melbourne someplace, >>> some in the CBD and some out in the suburbs, but all vastly wrong, and >>> places I haven't been. But I'd never expect it to be accurate on >>> those. >>> >> Well... the MaxMind demo of "my IP" did get the proper >> metropolitan >> area... But they list the ISP as "AT&T"... My real ISP is Earthlink >> (piggybacking on AT&T DSL service). >> >> The Lat/Long, however shows as >> >> 42.9634 -85.6681 >> whereas a recent GPS readout shows >> 42.9159 -85.5541 >> >> or 2m50s too far north, and 6m50s too far west. >> >> Same website, accessed from my Blackberry phone, gave a result of >> "United States, NA" and location 38 -97 >> > > > I have read all your answer very carefully but i still need some way of > getting it done. > > All my Greek website visitors say they are from Europe/Athens which is the > ISP's location and not user's homeland. > > Well it worked for me but as many other told me it wasn't accurate for them > too. > > Please try this: http://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip_demo > > and tell me if maxmind's database can pippont you city's location.
Nikos, you keep asking for a way to do the impossible. We keep telling you that it is impossible. No alternative technique will do what cannot be done! I just tried that on my two IPs and it was quite wrong on both of them - further wrong than some of the others have been. Stop expecting magic. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
