What's really flawed is the IP-to-City logic. The city that the ISP who owns the IP is really what is returned. The IP for my server in CT is shown to be in Baltimore, MD, and the IP for my IP here in Gainesville, VA is shown to be in Washington, DC. THAT'S flawed!
Bobby ----- Original Message ----- From: "Per Jessen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:24 PM Subject: [analog-help] Re: Re: IP-to-country > Jeremy Wadsack wrote: > > > > > Per Jessen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thursday, May 29, > > 2003 5:25 AM): > > > >> Interestingly, the ip-to-country database from above seems to > >> believe all private IP-ranges originate in the Netherlands? > > > > This, I believe, was the original question about Geotargeting. How > > accurate is it? For example, do international Compuserve customers > > (which is owned by AOL) appear to be geo-located in the US or are they > > properly assigned? > > The whole idea is pretty much flawed. The IP I use to access the internet > may or may not have anything to do with my geographical location. If I for > instance go thru a corporate proxy located in the US, even though I live in > Switzerland, well ... > > I believe the information in the various databases is /probably/ fairly > good, but it doesn't say anything about the quality of the information in > your logfiles, and it says even less about the quality of an analysis done > using those two combined. > > But maybe people aren't looking for accuracy? > > > /Per > > > > > -- > Per Jessen, Zurich > http://timian.jessen.ch - an analog report formatter using XSLT. > http://www.dansk.org - for alle danskere i udlandet! > > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: > | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html > | > | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ > | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general > | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
