Hugh Barnes wrote: > 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.
It also appears to me that the cookie has a time-out. At my work (I'm in the Netherlands) out internet is channeled to out US main offices' servers. So every day when I go to the OSM map, I end up in the US. Later tries that day do end up in the Netherlands. Maarten _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
