Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation
Hello, I tested it from Delhi and the result was good. However from Gwalior, it puts me in Madras/Chennai. Not good at all: not the same city, not the same state, and not even the same language. Regards, Yann 2010/8/10 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: Hello all, we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add functionality that will make it easy to run banners in a particular region (e.g. a city and surrounding area). To do so, we need to license a database that will allow us to look up a person's presumed location based on their IP address. Before we do so, we want to gather some reports from around the world about the quality of the information provided. To help out, please visit: http://www.maxmind.com/app/mylocation And then report your results at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting Thanks for any and all help, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation
Ravi, Good idea. It identifies Bangalore and Karnataka correctly. Can you click on the link and verify whether it shows Kovai correctly? Sundar from mobile On Wed Aug 11th, 2010 11:15 AM IST Ravishankar wrote: Eric, Good tool. Can this be used to display banners country wide or state wide? Many Indian Wikipedian users don't even know about the existance of regional language Wikipedias. So, if we can display a banner at the top giving links to regional Wikipedias, it will greatly boost the awareness about them. Sites like WordPress.com do this already. Ravi On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello all, we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add functionality that will make it easy to run banners in a particular region (e.g. a city and surrounding area). To do so, we need to license a database that will allow us to look up a person's presumed location based on their IP address. Before we do so, we want to gather some reports from around the world about the quality of the information provided. To help out, please visit: http://www.maxmind.com/app/mylocation And then report your results at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting Thanks for any and all help, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:12 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote: Ravi, Good idea. It identifies Bangalore and Karnataka correctly. Can you click on the link and verify whether it shows Kovai correctly? Sundar from mobile While all works well with fixed line broadband connections. IPs from mobile just provide the country. I have tried 3 providers' GPRS and all of them only give country level info. Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation
Does not work for me, have updated the wiki testing page. It showed me 163 km SE of my actual location. Shalabh On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:12 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: Ravi, Good idea. It identifies Bangalore and Karnataka correctly. Can you click on the link and verify whether it shows Kovai correctly? Sundar from mobile While all works well with fixed line broadband connections. IPs from mobile just provide the country. I have tried 3 providers' GPRS and all of them only give country level info. Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation
I'm in Mexico City and it's fairly accurate here (on fixed broadband and mobile), only a few kilometers off. However, most of Mexico's infrastructure is in Mexico City (it's 5 times larger than the next largest city). I will ping some people in Mexico in the other regions and see what they come up with. I'll update the meta page with my results. --Kul On 8/11/10 12:42 AM, Prashanth NS wrote: Hi, It gets the city wrong in the case of Antwerp, Belgium. Updated results on the site. Wonder if this is an isolated problem only with me, cos I was accessing through my Uni. But, if it happens even outside then it is off by about 50+ km! Have updated the meta page with the results. Regards, Prashanth Hello all, we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add functionality that will make it easy to run banners in a particular region (e.g. a city and surrounding area). To do so, we need to license a database that will allow us to look up a person's presumed location based on their IP address. Before we do so, we want to gather some reports from around the world about the quality of the information provided. To help out, please visit: http://www.maxmind.com/app/mylocation And then report your results at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting Thanks for any and all help, Erik -- Erik M?ller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/attachments/20100810/e6b47fcc/attachment-0001.htm -- Prashanth N S Faculty, Institute of Public Health, Bangalore Asst. Director (Research), Karuna Trust VGKK web @ http://daktre.com @prashanthns on twitter photos @ http://flickr.com/photos/biligiri ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation
I tested it and the distance from the given co-ordinates from my actual location was around 15kms ( 9.3 miles) , but within the same city of Bangalore Regards Tinu Cherian On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello all, we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add functionality that will make it easy to run banners in a particular region (e.g. a city and surrounding area). To do so, we need to license a database that will allow us to look up a person's presumed location based on their IP address. Before we do so, we want to gather some reports from around the world about the quality of the information provided. To help out, please visit: http://www.maxmind.com/app/mylocation And then report your results at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting Thanks for any and all help, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation
Eric, It seems to work with a 12 km diff. Meta page has been updated with the results. regards Arun On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello all, we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add functionality that will make it easy to run banners in a particular region (e.g. a city and surrounding area). To do so, we need to license a database that will allow us to look up a person's presumed location based on their IP address. Before we do so, we want to gather some reports from around the world about the quality of the information provided. To help out, please visit: http://www.maxmind.com/app/mylocation And then report your results at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting Thanks for any and all help, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation
Arun, Looks like both of us received the same co-ordinates from MaxMind :) Regards Tinu Cherian On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Arun Ram arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Eric, It seems to work with a 12 km diff. Meta page has been updated with the results. regards Arun On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello all, we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add functionality that will make it easy to run banners in a particular region (e.g. a city and surrounding area). To do so, we need to license a database that will allow us to look up a person's presumed location based on their IP address. Before we do so, we want to gather some reports from around the world about the quality of the information provided. To help out, please visit: http://www.maxmind.com/app/mylocation And then report your results at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting Thanks for any and all help, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation
Eric, Good tool. Can this be used to display banners country wide or state wide? Many Indian Wikipedian users don't even know about the existance of regional language Wikipedias. So, if we can display a banner at the top giving links to regional Wikipedias, it will greatly boost the awareness about them. Sites like WordPress.com do this already. Ravi On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello all, we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add functionality that will make it easy to run banners in a particular region (e.g. a city and surrounding area). To do so, we need to license a database that will allow us to look up a person's presumed location based on their IP address. Before we do so, we want to gather some reports from around the world about the quality of the information provided. To help out, please visit: http://www.maxmind.com/app/mylocation And then report your results at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting Thanks for any and all help, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
