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> I just tried that, says I'm 100 miles south of where I
> really am. That's quite a long way out in a small
country like England.Only 100 miles? I entered the address of a box I have in
Virginia, and it says it's in California. Well at least
it got the country right.
One of the geolocation thingies said my addresses were in
Amsterdam. That's only 10,000 miles from Hawaii. 2500
miles more and that's exactly the opposite side of the
planet... 
scott
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From: Jeff Rosowski <rosowskij@ie.ymp.gov>I just tried that, says I'm 100 miles south of where I
really am. That's quite a long way out in a smallcountry like England.
Only 100 miles? I entered the address of a box I have in
Virginia, and it says it's in California. Well at least
it got the country right.One of the geolocation thingies said my addresses were in
Amsterdam. That's only 10,000 miles from Hawaii. 2500
miles more and that's exactly the opposite side of the
planet...
Sometimes knowing which planet you are dealing with can be useful...
Regards
Marshall
Marshall Eubanks wrote:
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From: Jeff Rosowski <rosowskij@ie.ymp.gov>I just tried that, says I'm 100 miles south of where I
really am. That's quite a long way out in a smallcountry like England.
Only 100 miles? I entered the address of a box I have in
Virginia, and it says it's in California. Well at least
it got the country right.One of the geolocation thingies said my addresses were in
Amsterdam. That's only 10,000 miles from Hawaii. 2500
miles more and that's exactly the opposite side of the
planet...Sometimes knowing which planet you are dealing with can be useful...
Regards
Marshallscott
I am shure it is the right one, but it may be the wrong universe 
Peter
Try http://www.hostip.info it is reasonable accurate in most cases and
hell it is for free. It depends what you need it for of course but it is
far better than nothing.
64.29.76.9, your mauigateway.com pops up correctly as Honolulu.
205.166.249.10 is guessed to be somewhere random in the US.
The problem with this one is that they are still gathering data and they
depend on user input, but it looks pretty accurate to what I have found
out.
Most of these kind of databases rely on user input though. I am quite
sure that Google, using their search thing and especially Orkut has
quite some info on this. Shopping Sites like Ebay and Amazon of course
get their shipping info for free and thus can pretty much pinpoint the
city correctly after $x percentage of customers bought from there.
Problem in the end is of course when there is a huge pool and the
end-users change a lot, but then the country is accurate enough already.
Greets,
Jeroen
In article <1147895827.15487.5.camel@firenze.zurich.ibm.com>, Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> writes
Try http://www.hostip.info it is reasonable accurate in most cases and
hell it is for free. It depends what you need it for of course but it is
far better than nothing.The problem with this one is that they are still gathering data and they
depend on user input, but it looks pretty accurate to what I have found
out.
The problem with their "user input" is that the result they return is typically the ISP NOC location (in my case 200 miles south of me, about halfway across the country).
If I "correct" this, then suddenly all my ISP's users appear to be located in the same town as me. Which is probably more wrong than them all appearing to be where they've guessed the NOC location to be.