[brianwillis]

You got my GPS coordinates almost exactly correct. That's incredibly worrying.

I mean, it's impressive from a technical standpoint; but still, worrying.

[GordonS]

It puts me hundreds of miles out, in the wrong country.

I find these IP lookup tools vary greatly - some will match certain IP blocks better than others.

[coderholic]

Yeah, accuracy definitely varies by ISP, and region. If you'd be willing to share your IP or ISP with me ([e-mail]) I'd love to look into it and see what we might have been able to do / be able to do in the future to get a more precise location for you.

[GordonS]

No offense, but I'd rather it wasn't too accurate ;)

[maxerickson]

City level result here. Do you happen to live close to a center point of something?

[brianwillis]

Yes, that's a reasonable explanation. I'm near enough to the middle of my town for that to be the cause.

[coderholic]

Yeah, the geolocation is city/zip level accuracy. The coordinates are the centroid of the city or zip, not a specific point.

[selterdurst]

Read an article where people were coming to people's houses demanding their phone etc. because the location for that "region" was mapped to their backyard.

[mxd3]

It got me within one city block of my location. I’m in NYC.