Rossko, Thanks for the response, but it looks like, "I don't know" and, "It's not broken for me" best sums up your answer. :)
Anyone else know why "google.loader.ClientLocation" seems to not work for me. (and I guess by extension the hundreds of thousands of people who are using the same ISP provider I am) while obviously my location can be determined via my IP address ? Stan Slaughter On Apr 16, 1:17 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > If my location can be estimated from my IP by ip2location then why is > > google.loader.ClientLocation not able to ? > > That horse runs faster than this one, why is that? > > Because it uses a different method (or more likely range of methods). > Perhaps you could get your webpage to use ip2location instead if it's > better suited for your needs, can't tell. > > As an aside, what is 'better' is subjective. For me, client location > does give an answer but it is 60 miles away - my ISPs HQ (ip2location > agrees with that). For some purposes, that could be misleading and be > less use than a plain "don't know" response. > > cheers, Ross K --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
