hostip.info shows my IP in the US (VZ DSL), but OSM has always centered me on the UK.
It would be a neat feature if this worked. -Jeremy Original Message ----------------------- --z4+8/lEcDcG5Ke9S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 03:34:14PM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote: > It uses the cookie first, then your home location (assuming you're=20 > logged in), then GeoIP via hostip.info, and finally defaults to=20 > Europe. > Take a look at www.hostip.info if you want to see where it thinks you=20 > are. hostip.info locates me at Stuttgart, Germany, but OSM shows Europe=20 centered on UK. Cookies, cache and proxy disabled for testing. CU Sascha --=20 http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/ --z4+8/lEcDcG5Ke9S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSXNh1bpz82VMF3DaAQLA1Af/W621/P/b4FFX9cRQQAi9bIwjasrY5/7J tMIW1qEInLZ0E1F5Z7ewELcogkZLCKPYPbmRSt/oroMR35AhzATrouyi62POUh23 dl+JstVR8r91D8JLg01+FwKJVCnqyOwKjr4rw8hkQlXWSs4zfE/zA4Ull7cCBRHf kpxfey7Viv+CSzezs3fbZrxwdRE6QqF5uZJIjIWScJxrlLWUqdWXAgMObYVgf7Iu MImKqBSFP1qpCSm6NMeGNv6wjerdeogZZP4+1ASNDG6iBJ2tInH18/vVUgP1LA5F RVqjm8OvGOpq0CdxPGx9MHB4C/Q1vLZBvGLcq/JwItQhvU9b8aUI1A== =MEe7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z4+8/lEcDcG5Ke9S-- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
