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by TonyTrapp 1618 days ago
It might be a default set of coordinates used for geolocation of some IPs used in a larger region (or even state). This sort of thing has in fact caused trouble in the past at least once: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/09/maxmind-m...

> IP mapping isn’t an exact science and so MaxMind assigns a default address when it can’t identify its true location. That address just happened to be the Arnolds’ property, a remote farm that is located slap-bang in the middle of America.

> More than 600 million IP addresses are associated with their farm and more than 5,000 companies are drawing information from MaxMind’s database.

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Imagine the spam mail they must be getting.