Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Twe Russ
Guess he aint as good as we all hoped.
|
Hey, you're the one who asked if I was really from Brooklyn.
It'll never be 100% or even 90% accurate, given the lack of any centralized standard database. IP addresses are not like zip codes where US Post has a list of them and you know the longitude/latitude that each one belongs to. Most of the entries in each database are found by tracing the routes of every IP block and narrowing the result down by country, state, and finally city, and then in a lot of cases the scripts that do this work are picking keywords from router hostnames. If your ISP's datacenter is in a suburb and serves a large chunk of your state/country, there's a good chance that will be the reported result.
My own scripts show me in a city 3 hours north, but nail my friend a few blocks away with the same ISP. My ISP covers half of Canada, so it makes sense that they would have different uses for different IP blocks at different times.