I don't see how you can narrow down someone's location to the city they're in by their IP address. Country maybe, but not city.
David P On Tuesday 29 October 2002 3:57 pm, Casey Crookston wrote: > Denise, > > I'm no expert on how the internet backbone works in general, but > narowing down what city you live in based on your IP address is > fairly standard technology. > > It's not 100% fool proof, but it can come close most of the time. > > Casey > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Denise Schmidt [mailto:denise.schmidt@;cox.net] > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 7:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [wdvltalk] Determining user location > > > I was looking through some information sent out in the last weekly > WDVL Newsletter. I followed one of the links (unfortunately I can't > remember which one), and it was clear at this site that they were > able to determine the city where I'm located. I followed the trail > to http://www.geobytes.com. (demo at > http://www.geobytes.com/demo.htm). > > The product isn't free, but I know someone had a question about this > recently, and thought this might be worth looking into. > > Denise ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:wdvltalk-join@;lists.wdvl.com Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
