From owner-nanog@merit.edu Wed May 17 13:22:15 2006 Cc: nanog@merit.edu From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com> Subject: Re: [Way OT] Re: Geo location to IP mapping Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:21:02 -0400 To: surfer@mauigateway.com

On May 17, 2006, at 2:09 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:

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----- Original Message Follows ----- From: Jeff Rosowski <rosowskij@ie.ymp.gov>

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I just tried that, says I'm 100 miles south of where I really am. That's quite a long way out in a small country like England.

Only 100 miles? I entered the address of a box I have in Virginia, and it says it's in California. Well at least it got the country right.

One of the geolocation thingies said my addresses were in Amsterdam. That's only 10,000 miles from Hawaii. 2500 miles more and that's exactly the opposite side of the planet... ;-)

Sometimes knowing which planet you are dealing with can be useful...

I find that the state is invariably correct. Although the seems to be a lot of 'uncertainty' about how to spell "confusion".