On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Vaughn Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > As others have said geofencing is quite unreliable, I am in the US and I > never show as in the area I live in at least a few hundred miles away, and > this is going to be even less reliable as time goes on with companies and > countries starting to lease/sell IPv4 space, poorly documented and > geofencing services not updating as this happens.
Traditional geolocation is pretty bad. Usually such attempts are just matched against regional Internet registry records. There are services available that can pinpoint your geographical location much more accurately through data analytics. Since most ISPs rarely change the IP blocks associated with neighborhoods/cities, a lot of services use data collected from a variety of ads/sources (including requests for weather, direction services, subscriptions etc.) to determine your location far more accurately. Try out the following (if you live within the United States, you'll probably be shocked at the accuracy): http://ipinfo.io https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address Brandon Vincent
