Google Map in IP Address - Page 2

*Randall* · 12-03-2006, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Randall

It's a dynamic IP, so they must be assigning a certain range to each DSLAM

Well, maybe it's not that simple. Checking the IPs for my day jobs, which are also on SBC DSL lines, it gives me locations that are several towns away (in two different directions). Not even close.

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The only thing I can think of is that the local telcos are willing to share the location of the associated CO for individual IP blocks for the last-mile services they provide, or the ISPs are willing to share IPs and the address of each local CO.

Could be. Might be some some sort of regulatory reasoning behind it.

But seeing how I got three vastly different results from the same ISP, the first one may have been dumb luck. Or else they're wildly inconsistent across the state.

Guess I'll have to to check up on this periodically, to see if I get different answers.

Randall

*Andilinks* · 12-03-2006, 08:43 PM

DNS Stuff has me listed as near Albuquerque (260 miles off), Domain Tools has put me there also but isn't working at the moment.

ip-adress.com has me exactly half a mile from the interstate (precise) but 2.5 miles too far south. Not enough to harm me from a Homeland Security POV unless they're lobbing nukes. I do annoy Iran and China from time to time but I'm hardly worth a nuke...

*Snarpy* · 12-03-2006, 11:49 PM

The page doesn't come up in Opera, but it works in Firefox.

How are you measuring distances, Andi? I don't see a scale. They have me 2 to 3 miles too far west. I get my internet via wireless (now that the ice has thawed enough), and I suspect that might be the location of the tower.

*Andilinks* · 12-04-2006, 01:10 AM

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How are you measuring distances, Andi?

Good. I love maps, spacial awareness. I'm about 2200 feet from the freeway, I can see it but not hear it indoors. I just eyeballed the other distance, I didn't think I needed a precise figure there, it may be less accurate.

*Randall* · 12-04-2006, 08:55 PM

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I just eyeballed the other distance

2200 feet? My eyeballs can't handle distances much longer than an inch.

When I have time to sit down and figure out the calculations, I'll be measuring some distances considerably longer than an inch, just for fun ... but with a GPS-equipped cellphone, not my eyeballs.

Randall

*Andilinks* · 12-04-2006, 09:26 PM

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2200 feet?

No, the y coordinate 2.5 miles--on the map, which was several times the length of the x coordinate.

I estimated the multiple by looking at the ratio of two distances, one of which (2200 ft.) I had measured on a map that does have a scale.

In other words eyeballing is estimating by doing a spacial comparison of one known distance against another unknown distance mentally.

Much like flying by the seat of your pants, haven't you ever done that?

*Wassercrats* · 12-04-2006, 10:13 PM

About five miles off for me.

*Mandi* · 12-05-2006, 06:17 AM

Well, this morning it got me very close, within a mile or two I'd say. (I live on a military base, and it put me RIGHT along the outside of edge of it - they may not be designed to resolve inside the base . . . it's grayed out on Google Maps.) Perhaps it was a propagation thing with the new provider.

*Randall* · 12-05-2006, 06:33 PM

Today they've got me on the campus of Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford -- 6.5642 miles away, according to the GMaps Pedometer.

I don't do prep schools.

Seems safe to assume that Sunday's near-bullseye was a fluke. Perhaps it was an accurate position for the IP address I had at the time ... but then I don't see much rhyme or reason to the IPs that they're giving us, so it's a moot point.

Randall