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I am not asking what geolocation service to use or how you use them.
I am asking, how the do these companies know so well where every IP address is?? Is there some breach of privacy being violated?
I looked at the wikipedia page, and all they had to say...
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On the other hand hosting providers and data centers.
Country just by looking at the first 2 groups.
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 05:58 PM
I noticed they have geo-location enabled in Firefox, which could be a privacy risk to some users as some service providers are capable of providing a geo-location to within a few meters of actual location.
To turn this ...
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With me, LOL! Posted Yesterday, 01:14 AM
Geolocation makes me laugh in my case, because it always.
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I noticed they have geo-location enabled in Firefox, which could be a privacy risk to some users as some service providers are capable of providing a geo-location to within a few meters of actual location.
To turn this off:
- Type about:config into your...
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A vengeance, cause I will bring hell with me, LOL!
Back to top Geolocation makes me laugh in my case, because.
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We've got a website visited by users mainly in the USA and UK. The site will be run on servers in both these locations.
We would like to use a DNS service to direct users to the nearest server, but can't find any. Does anyone have an recommendations for...
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I have used BIND with ACL to provide geolocation service.
Http://www.webhostingtalk.com, round bobin, site monitoring...
Many providers are mentioned.
Here is a forum topic on it.
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Is there a good physical address to GeoLocation conversion database in the UK? I am trying to use this to build a globrix style search box http://www.globrix.com/ for a web application. Any pointers will be nice. I have been searching for hours. I have...
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The Google Maps API provides a geocoder webservice that you can actually....
Alternatively, you can buy the "PAF" (Postcode Address File) from the Royal Mail, but it is expensive .
Http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk should be able to help with this.
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The iPhone supports geolocation in mobile Safari via the following call:
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition( function(pos){ var lat = pos.coords.latitude; var long = pos.coords.longitude; }, function(){ /* Handler if location could not be found ...
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Google Gears provides a geolocation API with a syntax fairly.
Although I think it's a great practice to standardize on the (draft, by the way) W3C Geolocation is substantially different, but still easy .
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I am looking for a free service (providing a web service or a database that gets updated regularly) that will allow me to retrieve the Geolocations (Long/Lat) for Country/Prov/City.
Yahoo & Google's API's are unacceptable as they limit the total amount...
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Have you looked at GeoNames ?
I'm a fan of Geolite , they have both city and country databases... .
Have a look at TIGER line data
EDIT: In my experience it's not as accurate as NAVTEQ data (i think google and yahoo use them) but its what you get for free .
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This is probably a very silly question. I am trying to do a geolocation to find a users address based on their ip address using the api provided by http://www.hostip.info/use.html . I am using this in conjuction with jquery with the following code:
$....
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You can't make calls....
If hostip offered a JSONP API , that would be usable, but I didn't see any mention of one on their site .
Cross-domain limitations are likely to prevent you from reading the result data .
I don't think the call to them is successful.
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This is quite a long winded question, you can just skip to the last sentence if you don't care about the background info.
I just tested out HTML5 geolocation using Firefox 3.5+, and it managed to find my house, literally my exact address. I've been reading...
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W3C Geolocation API, however mentions
The Geolocation API defines a high....
Some info: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/
whether they also store a huge, Google Maps may not be able to provide a location at all.
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Hi (first question)
I'm trying to find the physical location of a computer using a language like Java/C. The only good accurate solution seems to be Google Gears ( http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api%5Fgeolocation.html ). MaxMind have an API but it ...
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If you're trying to do it on Windows and Java, this might be a little bit of help: Wifi .
For the geolocation API.
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