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Subject: Re: GeoIP2 for retrieving city and region ?
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On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 02:47:38 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@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
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