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Re:WikiMedia's Geo IP Lookup JSONP call by Inufu on Sunday July 10, 2011 @02:20PM (#2748262)
Not very accurate for me. Wrong by about 400km. (that's basically from one end of my country to the other end)
Re:WikiMedia's Geo IP Lookup JSONP call by harisenbon on Sunday July 10, 2011 @10:05PM (#2749187)
Same for me as well. I'm being detected all the way in another prefecture.

I find it strange that depending on the device, that I will be detected in different areas (even within the same service).

For example: Google Maps says I'm at a park about a 10 minute drive from my current location. But if I view the mobile version of it on my iPod, it can find me to the room of the building I am in.

Anything that's not google or apple puts me in Hamanako, which is a 2 hour drive on the expressway.

Re:WikiMedia's Geo IP Lookup JSONP call by yahelc on Sunday July 10, 2011 @03:44PM (#2748439)
It's off by ~10 miles, but since there are several million people between me and where it thinks I am, that's not particularly disturbing.
Re:WikiMedia's Geo IP Lookup JSONP call by conradev on Sunday July 10, 2011 @02:45PM (#2748325)
For me, it was wrong by about 50 miles.