On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Tushar Gandhi <[email protected]> wrote:
> For my upcoming application I need to find the location of the user. > I am doing this by using the "GeoIp" plugin. As others have pointed out, this is pretty unreliable. My home-based IP maps to a location several counties (~60 miles) away from where I actually live. And while on the road using a Verizon MiFi card, my location was identified as somewhere on the East Coast, when I was actually in a moving vehicle crossing the salt flats in the state of Utah :-) Depending on your need for accuracy, you may also want to look into the newer HTML5 location api as a cross-check. <http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html> HTH, and good luck! -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected] twitter: @hassan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
