Youtube TV Location error. Google Confirms issue but can't fix.

David Devereaux-Weber ddevereauxweber at gmail.com
Mon Nov 2 23:21:23 UTC 2020


YouTubeTV does better geolocation if the network connection is WiFi. In
that case, geolocation can reference the WiFi database that Google scrapes
when they take the Streetview video.

Dave

On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 1:03 PM Nate Burke <nate at blastcomm.com> wrote:

> Anyone here from the Youtube TV side of Google?   I've had a ticket open
> for 2 months on one of my /24 subnets getting the wrong City location.
> Every ticket reply from Google confirms that they see the incorrect
> location, They reference that it is part of a larger geo-location
> problem with YoutubeTV, and it's been sent to engineering.  For 2 months
> Engineering has been 'working on a fix' with no ETA.
>
> Anyone know what this massive geo-location issue is that they reference,
> and when it will be fixed?  Other subnets are locating correction, just
> this one /24, that's part of a larger block I've had for 20 years.
>
> Nate Burke
> Blast Communications
>
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David Devereaux-Weber
ddevereauxweber at gmail.com
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