On 04/13/2020 08:53 AM, Celejar wrote:
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:48:00 -0000 (UTC)
Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote:
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).
Both maxmind and geoip.com put me about three miles from my actual
location (both at the same point).
I don't know about maxmind, but geoip.com misses me by OVER 400 miles.