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April 28, 2008 1:12pm
Subscribe [23]#1 / Apr 28, 2008 1:12pm
I was wondering if you could help me out with a quick test? Please - its really easy.
Click this link, and copy/paste what you see in your reply. I’m doing a bit of geo-targeting but I can only test two locations! I’m specifically after US locations, but anything will do!!
Don’t worry I’m not logging anything if you’re one of those conspiracy theorists, I’m just spitting out the info based on $_SERVER[“REMOTE_ADDR”]...
A thousand thanks!
Chris.
#2 / Apr 28, 2008 1:12pm
Heres a couple of examples:
GB GBR United Kingdom M9 Staffordshire Hednesford 52.7 -2
GB GBR United Kingdom K2 Oxfordshire Oxford 51.75 -1.25
#3 / Apr 28, 2008 1:24pm
GB GBR United Kingdom L5 Salford Salford 53.4833 -2.2668
#4 / Apr 28, 2008 1:36pm
Looks OK for my location:
BG BGR Bulgaria 42 Grad Sofiya Sofia 42.6833 23.3167
#5 / Apr 28, 2008 1:37pm
GB GBR United Kingdom C5 Cheshire Macclesfield 53.25 -2.1167
Only 200 miles out!
Got this from my box in the states[208.113.201.59]:
US USA United States
CA California
Brea
92821
33.9269
-117.8612
803
714
#6 / Apr 28, 2008 1:52pm
US USA United States FL Florida Boca Raton 26.3739 -80.1468 548 561
#7 / Apr 28, 2008 2:23pm
DE DEU Germany 08 Rheinland-Pfalz Andernach 50.4333 7.4
#8 / Apr 28, 2008 2:33pm
GB GBR United Kingdom H2 Lancashire Leigh-on-sea 51.55 0.6667
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=118424695621804325636.00044bf247156240eea4c
Thought i’d point out on a map the distance from where it thought i was. The 2 bookmarks pinpoints tag thingys show it.
#9 / Apr 28, 2008 3:13pm
CA CAN Canada BC British Columbia Penticton 49.5 -119.5833
Well it got the country and province right…. The rest you can chalk up to our crap ass ISPs
Good on you for not Rick Rolling everyone… you have better restraint than I 😉
-Lee
#10 / Apr 28, 2008 3:46pm
NL NLD Netherlands 03 Gelderland Nijmegen 51.8333 5.8667
Not quite right, only about 100 km off.
#11 / Apr 28, 2008 4:20pm
CA CAN Canada QC Quebec Montreal 45.5 -73.5833
#12 / Apr 28, 2008 4:43pm
BE BEL Belgium 01 Antwerpen Putte 51.0667 4.6333
about 60-70km off i think
#13 / Apr 28, 2008 5:01pm
Absolutely Fantastic, what a great response
Thanks
frenzal, sikkie, codex, CI Lee, Gazza, Peter Pan, CI jforth, HdotNET, mironcho & daveashenden.
Blindin!
Its for an application that will guess the visitors vicinity, and it looks like its fairly accurate, as far as IP tracking goes.
Thanks again guys!
CI Lee, great idea 😊
#14 / Apr 28, 2008 5:01pm
GB GBR United Kingdom C5 Cheshire Altrincham 53.3833 -2.35
Real Location: WA8 9WD (postcode)
#15 / Apr 28, 2008 5:03pm
thanks bud! I can’t keep up 😉