Geoplotting...
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And yes, I know you meant the largest country smaller than Rhode Island.
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Vatican City is too easy though; I've seen car parks bigger than the Vatican City!
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So what's
ip_address
? Their last seen address or something?edit: I posted this before I saw the image.
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hmm.... just plugged my IP into that and according to Google after rounding to 3 decimal places i am in the middle of the L in "Portland" in the photo i posted....
weird.
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Vatican City is too easy though; I've seen car parks bigger than the Vatican City!
Hey, there's no Sealand! What the hell? :Ρ
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Not even slightly close (I'm currently at the office; it's just below the 'in' in 'Ashton-in-Makerfield')
Putting my work IP into that service puts me under the 'Ma'. That's still 2.5 miles out…
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2.5 miles is pretty good going.
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I've made plenty of jokes about the country I'm in and I handed out traveling advise to the closed major city to both my home and work but there are no dots for just under 100km in all directions
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There's a flag right in the town I live in, nothing where I work. Possibly it has my IP from home.
There are a couple of people within a few miles of me. Mildly surprised at that
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I was surprised how many people were close(ish) to me.
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ohh, there i am.
almost 30 km away, but i think the problem it's this country geolocation. almost all the ip's in my city are in the same place
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England, actually.
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I think I recognise my homeland
I was talking about the US state…
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Which one of the Milwaukee ones is me?
I'm assuming that up to four of them are me since I had a bot at one point and my ISP changes my IP address on a whim.
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I think you could make a good parody of Milwaukee PC with this video.
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But it'd take him years to load the video in the first place.
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Got within 1.08km of my work location.
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the closed major city
Your country closes major cities? I new Belgium was weird, but...
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Assuming the pin that I think is for me on that map, it has the right quarter of the city block representing me.
That's a bit spooky, I guess.
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Due to geodiscorounding, I'm gonna go ahead and say this is me (unless anyone else wants to claim downtown Vancouver?) It's probably about a 15-20 minute walk from my apartment to the map blob. I'm on the other side of False Creek though, so some of that time is finding the nearest bridge...
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It's probably about a 15-20 minute walk from my apartment to the map blob.
How about for Jesus?
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I'm not on there. Now the question is whether the geoIP thing thinks if I'm in deep Bavaria or if I'm in deep Hesse (I live and work kind of close to the border between the two states - the dotted line in the screenshot) - I've seen both things happen to me before.
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Who lives in the middle of Greenland?
Also, it's good to know that—according to that GeoIP database—I live in a small town in the middle of nowhere, 20 miles from where I actually live.
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I'm not on there.
Now the question is whether the geoIP thing thinks if I'm in deep Bavaria or if I'm in deep Hesse (I live and work kind of close to the border between the two states - the dotted line in the screenshot) - I've seen both things happen to me before.Using this page:
...you're all over the place in Germany, depending on which provider you believe.
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Most of the results for me on that are the second-closest town, which is less than 10 minutes. Considering it's an IP which could be dynamically re-allocated to lots of customers in the area, that's good enough.
Two providers have it further away.
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I'll gladly rerun the set through another Geolocation service that will quickly bulk-reply on a whole slew of IP addresses....
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I'll gladly rerun the set through another Geolocation service that will quickly bulk-reply on a whole slew of IP addresses....
I'm not sure that would help. According to http://www.iplocation.net/, the others' guesses about my location are even worse. And I live in the middle of a large city.
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TBH, the exercise was more of a "can I do it" rather than "an accurate IPgeomap".
The fact that DC still doesn't IP stamp individual posts or edits is one of its rather more obscure shortcomings. CS managed it.
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TBH, the exercise was more of a "can I do it" rather than "an accurate IPgeomap".
I thought you were offering to rerun the IP addresses because everyone was making fun of the results. ;)
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The fact that DC still doesn't IP stamp individual posts or edits is one of its rather more obscure shortcomings. CS managed it.
Dammit. Now we'll never know whether blakey writes his rants in his mother's basement or his own apartment.
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You assume these are different places.
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Meh. Whichever service I used would have resulted in unhappy users.
Was an interesting exercise from my POV however, learnt a few things.
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They're using Dischorse, they're already unhappy users.
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Or an office in.. oh.exif deleted...
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Unhappy user? No, not at all, I was quite amused by the results.
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Considering it's an IP which could be dynamically re-allocated to lots of customers in the area, that's good enough.
I'm behind a ISP NAT at home, so no way it will ever get my location right there.
Even then, I don't think there are more than maybe 5 cities that would even get resolved properly around here. Mine is definitely not among them.
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Still nothing remotely close to me or to work.
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Why is the picture there twice?
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I don't think I did that...
We'll call this one a DiscoFireLinuxFoxBug.
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Work is only about 4 miles out, but home is rather thoroughly wrong… so I don't mind the picture being displayed. :)
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Failsworth?
That's an interesting name.
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That's an interesting breaking of the URL/Onebox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westward_Ho!
vs
edit: Bookmarked to raise a bug later
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Failsworth?
That's an interesting name.
England's full of places with odd names. Like Barking, in Essex. Or Nob End, in south Lancashire.And, of course, there's Penistone. And Cockermouth. And…
Well… I wasn't expecting that!
Should clarify: apparently, in that name,
furry
is pronounced to rhyme withhurry
.
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I drive by this regularly.