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Subject: Re: GeoIP2 for retrieving city and region ?
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 12:48:20 -0400
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On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 10:12:23 +0200, Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it>
declaimed the following:

>
>Read the answers you got. What is *impossible* is *exactly and
>precisely* find the geographical location of your machine, just using an
>IP database like what you are doing, i.e. without your local machine
>cooperating in the process (for example, by providing the numbers taken
>from your local machine's GPS device).
>
	Which obviously did NOT happen when I used my Blackberry phone -- which
does have geolocation enabled (it is tagging photos with the city).

	The only thing MaxMind had available from my phone was apparently the
DHCP server used by Blackberry, and gave out the approximate center of the
US.
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