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

[Martin Barry]

$quoted_author = "Jim Birch" ;
> 
> 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/

There was a similar story covered in an episode of the Reply All podcast
https://gimletmedia.com/episode/53-in-the-desert/

Basically an area with lots of abandoned homes results in a single WLAN
access point being used for geo-location instead of the usual triangulation
amongst lots of them.

cheers
Marty