On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:43:46 +0000 Shaun McDonald <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 18 Jan 2009, at 08:53, Tom Hughes wrote: > > > Sam Watkins wrote: > > > >> I had an idea just a small thing, that when you first go to the > >> openstreetmap.org site it would be nice if it would check your IP > >> address using some geo-ip system and go to that location (zoomed > >> out at > >> world height) for a start, instead of always starting near > >> england / europe. Has this been proposed before? I'd be happy to > >> help implement > >> that I guess it would be an easy thing to do. > > > > Like it's been doing for the last few years you mean... > > I'll just add that it does it on a country level, rather than city > or state level. > > I have tested it when abroad in Europe, and it does place me in the > appropriate country. > FWIW it doesn't seem to ever work for me in at least a couple of environments I've tried. Either it drops me at my last viewport or I'm back in good ol' Blighty needing to claw my way back. I actually assumed that it was determined by my login status rather than cookie. In either case, whatever geolocation service is being used doesn't seem to cover a lot of providers here in Australia. I know they're not perfect. However, I've played with Maxmind in the past and it gets the country right. I think it's a pay service, though. Just hoping that helps. Its a good feature when it works. Cheers _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
