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[Travis McCrea <me AT travismccrea.com>]

Sorry to go slightly off-topic (and spam everyone), but I can't email peter 
directly and it's vaguely related: If you don't highlight me when you talk to 
me, I will nearly immediately forget that I was talking to you :P You have 
like 10 seconds to reply, or I am on a new window looking at cats :\

Hunter 9999 wrote:
> Am 12.12.2012 um 21:27 schrieb Mauricio Pasquier Juan 
> <mauricio AT pasquierjuan.com.ar>:
>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 03:35:17PM -0500, opennic AT lewman.us wrote:
>>> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:24:43 +0100
>>> nanashiRei <nanashi.rei AT gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This just implies that your ISP doesn't provide valid geo information,
>>>> good for you. It finds me pretty accurately (~10km distance).
>>> The maxmind geoip database finds it down to my town. This html5/geo
>>> site clearly isn't using maxmind geoip db,
>>> https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip_demo
>> How does it work?
>>
>> When you visit a location-aware website, Firefox will ask you if you want 
>> to
>> share your location.
>>
>> If you consent, Firefox gathers information about nearby wireless access 
>> points
>> and your computer’s IP address. Then Firefox sends this information to the
>> default geolocation service provider, Google Location Services, to get an
>> estimate of your location. That location estimate is then shared with the
>> requesting website.
>>
>> If you say that you do not consent, Firefox will not do anything.
>>
>> https://www.mozilla.org/en/firefox/geolocation/
>
> Chrome do the same.
> IE do the same, but with Microsoft Location service.
>
> In IE I get the first time an absolutely false location, the second time 
> acurately of ~10 meters.
> Firefox gets my location every tim acurately of ~5 meters, with WiFi, 
> without Wifi, with GPS, without GPS, on Notebook, on Handy.
>
> But I think the ping is realy better to find an Server.
>