[Way OT] Re: Geo location to IP mapping

Wed May 17 18:09:08 UTC 2006

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From: Jeff Rosowski <rosowskij at 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 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