HTTP Cats - Hackdot

Re:HTTP Cats by Svip on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:22AM (#20284704)

It doesn't handle non-US countries particularly well. It found my city, and the post code is close by (2000), but then the query in the Google Maps URL is just "2000". How will that get me here? Maybe add the country code to the Google Maps URL, e.g. "<country code> <post code>"?

Otherwise, appropriate shameless plug. I only mention the above, because I could see myself making use of it.

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Re:HTTP Cats by lemcoe9 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:29AM (#20284781)

Please refresh and see what happens.

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Re:HTTP Cats by Svip on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:33AM (#20284812)

Thanks for the quick change. That's definitely better.

Unfortunately, most European countries aren't federal states, and so dividing them by "state" (more like region, county, department or province) makes little sense. Although, that being said, I am confident that Google would find "2000 Capital Region" correctly, no matter where I search from. (Can't really test it, since Google is clever enough to base the post code on where I'm searching from.)

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Re:HTTP Cats by lemcoe9 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:36AM (#20284846)

I am able to be neither a beggar nor a chooser with the API that I am leveraging to geo-code the IP addresses, because I am not paying for it! Either way, thank you for letting me know about non-US use-cases.

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