On 2020-04-11, Anil F Duggirala <anilduggir...@fastmail.fm> wrote: >> > >> > Perhaps it simply looks up your IP address. Would I be right in >> > thinking that you are located in your DC? >> So. I right now physically in the beautiful city of Cali, Colombia. >> And >> Gnome Maps is showing my location precise to about a 10 meter radius >> of >> my actual location. That is my concern. Location Services are Off and >> have never been turned on on this machine. >> > I should not have said a 10 meter radius, thats not fair. I would say, > always, within a 50 meter radius. Which imo is pretty precise for IP > based location. >
BTW, I fed my IP address to this site https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address and it nails my location approximately within a 50 meter radius (I entered the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinate output into Google's search engine, which brings up the spot in their Maps app). I found this surprising (in my vast ignorance).
