On Apr 3, 6:55 pm, Doomsday <[email protected]> wrote: > > As far as not "bothering" to post a URL, I am asking what factors can > effect google from effectively determining a user's client location > from the browser's IP.
It depends on the information available about that IP address. While addresses are allocated to countries and there are a number of services which provide that level of granularity, it may not be possible to match a particular ISP's data to a city. Or Google may know that the city returned for a particular IP address is wrong -- my IP address will be listed as London, for example, even though I'm nowhere near there. > My code has nothing to do with this process. Except that you wrote "I feel confident that I have done something that has broken it." and presumably your code is getting the client location and finding it to be null. If you provided a link to your page, you could have several dozen people try it from different locations and report back whether it retrieved their location correctly or not. Or whether in fact you have indeed broken it. Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
