Fixing Google geolocation screwups

Aaron C. de Bruyn aaron at heyaaron.com
Tue Apr 7 23:10:27 UTC 2015


You might try here: https://www.maxmind.com/en/correction

-A

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Fred Hollis <fred at web2objects.com> wrote:
> Thanks for sending this to the list: We have the very same issue as well
> (both IPv4+IPv6). If someone knows the magic button to solve this, please
> contact me as well.
>
>
> On 08.04.2015 at 00:26 John Levine wrote:
>>
>> A friend of mine lives in Alabama and has business service from at&t.
>> But Google thinks he's in France.  We've checked for various
>> possibilities of VPNs and proxies and such, and it's pretty clear that
>> the Goog's geolocation for addresses around 99.106.185.0/24 is screwed
>> up.  Bing and other services correctly find him in Alabama.
>>
>> Poking around I see lots of advice about how to use Google's
>> geolocation data, but nothing on how to update it.  Anyone
>> know the secret?  TIA
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
>> Dummies",
>> Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
>>
>>
>



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