Google geolocation

[ajetrumpet]

i found the following code here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/409999/getting-the-location-from-an-ip-address

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
contry_code = google.loader.ClientLocation.address.country_code
city = google.loader.ClientLocation.address.city
region = google.loader.ClientLocation.address.region
</script>

will this work to get location info?

Edited October 15, 2019 by ajetrumpet

[Barand]

It will get location info, but not necessarily the correct info. For me, it returned

• Country : GB
• Region: West Riding of Yorkshire
• City : Salford.

The country is correct. However I do not live in Salford or the West Riding of Yorkshire. Also, Salford is in Lancashire, not in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

I'd class it as a "Failed".

(Moved to new topic)

[gw1500se]

IP address locations are based on the ISP location not the assigned user location.

[ajetrumpet]

6 minutes ago, gw1500se said:

IP address locations are based on the ISP location not the assigned user location.

if that is the case, how would one capture the actual user's info?  is this even possible?

[gw1500se]

Not for DNS assigned IPs.  Static IPs are only a maybe. There is no way to capture that reliably without user interaction.

[ajetrumpet]

good to know.  thanks brother.  i will stick with the ip lookup website then.

[Barand]

45 minutes ago, gw1500se said:

IP address locations are based on the ISP location not the assigned user location.

My results could be right then - there is the possibility that my ISP is in Salford.

As for the region, it could be Google has a Londoner's view of England where anywhere beyond the end of their Northern underground line is "the North" (beware, here be dragons!)

[requinix]

For the record, if you're dealing with mobile devices then you can get GPS information - if the user allows you to do so. Non-mobile devices will give you information according to the IP address (user still has to approve), which will be more or less the same as the geolocation version.

Basically, geolocation is only as good as a country and state. City is hit or miss.

[ajetrumpet]

the way i have it now, the president of this org. doesn't have to do anything but click on the link in the traffic report to see the ip geolocation information so it is fine the way it is.

[ajetrumpet]

this is interesting...facebook shows that my geo location is 2 hours away from me!  i'm on a wifi hotspot on my phone and my carrier is us cellular, so this too proves that this whole geo thing is not at all reliable.

 

 

[Barand]

14 hours ago, ajetrumpet said:

the president of this org. doesn't have to do anything but click on the link in the traffic report to see the ip geolocation information

So you're writing an application for those in your company who don't know where they are when they are browsing reports?

[ajetrumpet]

???  why do you say that?  my words indicate nothing of the sort.  they want it as easy as possible.  don't most small business people?  they don't have time to figure that crap out, nor do they care to.

Edited October 16, 2019 by ajetrumpet

[Barand]

Wondering why he would want to click on a link to see where he is.

[ajetrumpet]

he's not doing it for that purpose Barand.  you should know, u gave me the correct script!  he wants to know where his visitors are coming from.  i regularly check that report and there are plenty of visits from google's cloud, google's bots, ms's bots and us cellular's company as well, which is our cell phone carrier.

[ajetrumpet]

are you still running this consultancy?

 

http://www.barringtondrew.co.uk/

[Barand]

10 minutes ago, ajetrumpet said:

he wants to know where his visitors are coming from.

I was thinking you were using

city = google.loader.ClientLocation.address.city

which just shows location of current user (or user's proxy)

10 minutes ago, ajetrumpet said:

are you still running this consultancy?

If anyone ever contacts it. It hasn't happened yet. I was thinking of contacting the Guiness Book of Records as the world's least visited site.

[ajetrumpet]

lol, nice!  you have yet to attract ONE customer!?  you've never sold anything?  i don't even have a website and i've done plenty of individual contracts!  and you mite as well contact them.  they have records for just about everything imaginable.

Edited October 16, 2019 by ajetrumpet

[Barand]

P.S.

18 minutes ago, ajetrumpet said:

you should know, u gave me the correct script!

If you are talking about correcting your href in the other thread then all I ever saw was a variable called $col. There was no way I could know what was in it.

[Barand]

9 minutes ago, ajetrumpet said:

and i've done plenty of individual contracts! 

Considering your lack of knowledge, please pass on my deepest sympathies to your clients.

[ajetrumpet]

lack of knowledge in PHP only, buddy boy.  i never said i did contracts in PHP.

[ajetrumpet]

oh and I just read in the news that some of the programming experts out there consider PHP to be a dying language, along with mainframers like cobol and fortran.   I seriously doubt that though.

[Barand]

45 minutes ago, ajetrumpet said:

in PHP only

• HTML?
• JavaScript?
• CSS?

I was referring to web languages in general and the interaction between them - you seem to have conned your current employer into believing you know what you're doing. 😉

[ajetrumpet]

actually no i didn't.  i wasn't hired for PHP.  nor was i hired for web application work.  but microsoft technologies suck, so he asked me what was available in the open source world.  small business people don't have a ton of money to spend while they are in the early stages of business, thus he asked if I would learn it to produce some small projects.  and now I will develop a mobile app for the same guy.  that will be a huge undertaking.  i'm really not looking forward to it.

[Barand]

In that case, my apologies.