[LINK] Location, location, location, location, location,...

[Rick Welykochy]

Jim Birch wrote:
> When an online mapping service cannot locate a precise address, it defaults
> to the central point in the general area. The central point of the United
> States is the Taylor farm near Wichita, Kansas. Every fleeing debtor in
> America is robotically assumed to be in Joyce Taylor’s front yard. “There
> are now over 600 million IP addresses associated with that default
> coordinate”. “That poor woman has been harassed for years”
>
> http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/
>

Haven't the designers of the database heard about NULL? Even a geo-coord of
(0.000, 0.000) would be more useful than the Taylor farm.

And don't internet users realise that the geo-location information obtained from
IP addresses is sketchy, at best?

I look up my current dynamic IP from time to time for a laugh. My home computer
has been "spotted" in Winnipeg, Vancouver, Chilliwack, Edmonton, Jasper, etc.
You get the picture. Seems most lusers don't. Not even police and FBI.

Whomever maintains the geo-location information for their IP assignments don't
seem to keep their data up to date. Not by a long shot.

cheers
rickw


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