[Way OT] Re: Geo location to IP mapping

Wed May 17 18:43:20 UTC 2006

Marshall Eubanks wrote:
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> On May 17, 2006, at 2:09 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
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>> ----- Original Message Follows -----
>> 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.
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>> 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...  ;-)
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> Sometimes knowing which planet you are dealing with can be useful...
> 
> Regards
> Marshall
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>> scott
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> 

I am shure it is the right one, but it may be the wrong universe :)

Peter

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