Questions tagged [geolocation]

Geolocation is the identification of the real-world geographic location of an object, such as a radar, mobile phone or an internet-connected computer terminal.

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Streets and Trips data import wizard - use address instead of long/lat

Is there a way to ether force Streets and Trips to always pin by address even if long/lat data is present, or to have streets and trips pin by address for rows that are missing long/lat data? We ...
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Set fall back or default geolocation in Google Chrome?

For some reason my home broadband isn't resolving a geolocation inside Chrome, this isn't a problem at work. Is it possible to set a default or a fall back location in Chrome if the lookup fails? ...
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How to prevent Google Maps from using Google Gears under Chrome

I've just allowed Google Maps to access my current location by enabling Google gears for the same service. I want to know how do I disable Google Gears now, even for Google Maps or any other website ...
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Is it possible to provide local geolocation data?

This may not be possible, but I thought I may as well ask. I have set up my own local network, using a small computer running Debian Linux (Wheezy), which is acting as a wireless router. What I'd ...
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Location Services are always disabled in Mac OS X Lion

A simple location services program was working fine on my machine and suddenly stopped working. Upon further exploring the problem, I realized that some process has disabled location services in ...
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Can I get IP addresses for the US or a certain state?

How can I easily get the IP address blocks for a particular state or city within the US? I was thinking that I could plug that into my iptables firewall to restrict traffic.
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Hiding my location to websites with region-specific languages/content

I just went to download Microsoft Secority Essentials and it enraged me as it redirected me to a site in my home language and not the default English. If I go to America, I don't want them to speak ...
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What determines the current browser location on desktop PC and how can it be changed?

When Google Chrome asks me to share my location with a website that uses the geolocation feature such as mycurrentlocation.net, and I allow it, the website locates me a few kilometers away in the next ...
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How to Enable Location Services on Google Chrome

When using Chrome, Google Maps can not find my location. It works with Safari and Firefox. I guess it has something to do with I can not add Chrome to Enable Location Services. These are my specs: ...
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Why would a new EC2 East instance take me to www.google.com.tw?

I set up an EC2 instance in the U.S. East (N. Virginia) region. It's a Windows Server 2012 instance, and the very first time I visited Google in Internet Explorer, I got redirected to google.com.tw. ...
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How to add a WiFi access point location to Google's database? [closed]

I've seen explanations how to remove your wireless access point from Google's location database. But let's say you wanted to add it to the database -- how do you do that? (Why? For example, the ...
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Why is my true IP location revealed *inside* my VPS host?

I'm using VPS hosting based on Windows Server 2008. The machine is physically located in the US and I'm connecting via RDP using mRemoteNG from my home in Europe. It's easy to Google many "IP ...
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how do browsers locate position? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: HTML5 Precise GeoLocation I'm not sure if this question should be asked here or not by here it goes: In html5 there is a function navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition ...
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Overseas proxy makes Firefox think I am in Germany or Netherlands

Well actually doesn't it thinks I'm in France but there already was a question like this but for Chrome, so I thought I may as well frame it the same way Overseas proxy makes Google Chrome think I am ...
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How can I create a heat map based on data from Google Analytics? [closed]

How would one go about creating a heat map (say, of the US) based on location data from Google Analytics? I'd like to somehow create such a map with the visitor data from several websites that use ...
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How does Google Gears geolocation work?

I'm quite impressed by the Google Gears geolocation demo. It usually has an accuracy under 50 meters and besides authorizing Google Gears, I haven't revealed any other information concerning my ...
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Changing location in Google Chrome when searching

I've recently moved to the Czech Republic from Scotland and I can't find a way to permanently stop Google from automatically defaulting back to google.cz all the time. I've checked to ensure that all ...
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Find Location of an IP with Accuracy to the City or Street Level

Is there a solution/code/service to find an IP with accuracy to the City level in the sense of the IP's geolocation? How would you implement this on your own? Would you need to fetch a live update of ...
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How can I bypass location-dependent redirects on a website I'd like to view as a local of different region than the one I'm in?

I live in California, and I'm trying to get to New York's AAA site so I can manage membership for my family, who's in New York. Instead, I get redirected to California's AAA, and the AAA Locations and ...
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Avoid geographic restrictions in the internet

I am living in UK and I want to access some contents (mostly streamings) of websites that are only accesible from Spain. I've first tried with some free IP hiding software, but the bandwidth they ...
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Google can locate you with WiFi data, but how do the small companies do it?

My question is a extension to this one. So even though I donot have GPS in my laptop, google knows my location because I am connected to a WiFi AP, or at least have them in my vicinity, to which other ...
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Why does Google think I’m in Korea from every device on my home network when I am in Canada?

I’m not sure when this started happening but every device (e.g. laptop, phones, tablets, etc…) at home, Google thinks I’m in Korea when I’m actually in Canada. I tried using Geo IP Tool to double-...
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Router MAC address procuring for WPS positioning

It is known that either Skyhook or Google procured the wireless access points mac address while roaming around. I am curious how the MAC addresses were procured, as this does not seem to be easy to ...
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Change google search location beyond current country [closed]

I often work remotely and prefer using en-us locale settings for my searches. One of our computers is located in Germany, and whenever I try to change the location in Google Search Settings, I get an ...
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How to setup windows 10 to lock screen only when NOT connected to home network?

Is there a way to setup lock screen with password, BUT only when I'm not connected to my home network? The intended use-case would be that my laptop would always be unblocked when I'm at home, but ...
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Exiftool's "-tagsfromfile" does not help recover all metadata (#iphone)

This is a long standing practical problem (more than one year). I always want to finish it, but every time I tried I failed. I have consulted several threads for it. I have a bunch of daily-life ...
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Getting wrong GEO Location - How can I fix it?

So I did multiple ip searches on multiple websites and the Geographical location is Sri Lanka. It shows IPS is DataShack, LC The real location should be Kansas City, MO. USA My server's ip is 199.168....
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Changing google language

My question is simple: how can I change google language? When I visit www.google.com it writes response code 302 moved and redirect me to www.google.tk. I've changed the language setting in chrome, I ...
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How to get the coordinates for an address?

I'm not necessarily looking for a programmatic way to do this - if I was, I'd ask on Stack Overflow. I'm just wondering how to quickly retrieve the latitude and longitude for a given address? Is ...
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How can I improve Mac OS X's Location Services?

I recently moved to a new apartment in a new building in a new neighborhood in San Francisco (central waterfront / Mission Bay). I know that Apple uses Wi-Fi for determining location, but Mac OS X ...
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Google location services incorrectly identifies my location [closed]

Short version: I live in Iowa. My WiFi only Android tablet's AccuWeather.com weather app, and Google Maps, and Chrome on my laptop tell me I'm located Oklahoma City. Why? Commentary: From what I ...
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Remote and Local IP address - determine location

There is way to determine location (on a map) remote IP. Was wondering how to determine user location if I now local IP?
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Geolocation in Firefox doesn't always work

I have a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.6 and Firefox 3.6.8. I am working on a website that uses HTML5 geolocation. I noticed that it doesn't always work. It hangs for a long time, or if I have a timeout, ...
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Are there mapping utilities out there that will let me import geo position data (lat/long) and plot the points on a map?

I have a data file with a bunch of lat/long positions. Is there any mapping software out there (google maps, etc) that will allow me to import the positions from the file and plot them on a map? I ...
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How to use a serial attached GPS device with geoclue and PureMaps?

I have a serial attached GPS device on my Raspberry Pi 4 running the current 64Bit distro. I want to use PureMaps to navigate. PureMaps is not detecting any directions and in the C++ files it seems ...
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How to enable precise location for apps in Windows Subsystem for Android?

I have Windows Subsystem for Android + ADB + WSA Toolkit. I installed application called Moovit in order to know when my bus will arrive. Turns out location is incorrect when using this application on ...
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Blocking entire countries with IPTABLES

I currently use -j DROP in my Linux based router commands to keep international spammers out of my Windows Server 2016 based server, and would like to block entire countries where the spammers ...
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Windows location settings detecting location with VPN

I was just curious as to how windows 10 location services (the built into the operating system location tracking) knows your city even if you are using a VPN how would it know? I know I can turn this ...
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Azure VM IP and its geolocation

I shutdown my Azure VM everyday in the evening, when it comes online the following morning it gets a new public IP (which is fine for me). However the IP location if I do WHOIS lookup sometime shows ...
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Run Programs at a specific physical (bureau) location

I use my laptop at multiple different workplaces, through the use of docking stations. One of these Workplaces (my home) has some specific hardware that requires specific software to run correctly, ...
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How to set location access for local html file in chrome

So i've built my own startpage and I'm using a weather API to display the local weather. Needless to say I don't want to give chrome explicit access to my location everytime i open a tab since I coded ...
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What geolocation information can be gleaned from first 3 parts of the IP address?

I am working on a non-security related research project where we have a list of anonymized IP addresses with the last 3 digits (the last block) masked. The project is about tracking attention to the ...
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How to use google.com on the new-tab page in Chrome?

I'm currently on a French IP address, and Chrome (on Windows) always uses Google France on the new-tab page, even if I went to google.com/ncr to disable the IP-based redirect. This is pretty annoying ...
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tracking Huawei Mifi Model online [closed]

Okay, i'm going to try and explain as best as can. I want to be able to track my Huawei Mifi device with my phone (using maps) from any location even if I leave the device at home or in the office (...
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How does Google know I am behind a SOCKS proxy?

Setup: Ubuntu Desktop, Firefox without Flash or Java, using Socks 5 proxy, wired connection, all history/cookies cleared. All other websites, including IP and location detecting sites like ...
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Can I force an update to IPGeolocation data?

So I just moved, so of course the MAC address of my WiFi router still shows me located at my previous residence (both Google and Bing maps). Do I need to wait until the next drive by from each of the ...
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Can you change your location in Windows 8? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Windows 8 geolocation change at the OS level I have installed Windows 8 and I'm connected through cable. The location services thinks I am somewhere close, but not especially. ...
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Is there a good site for finding out the location given IP [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Know exact location of IP address Given an IP address, many sites can give an location estimated for where the IP is from. However, the estimation by many sites are not good. ...
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Website/app to geocode accurate co-ords from an address? [closed]

Ok i've tried a couple and they've been miles out. I don't need anything automated or any json / xml etc just a good website where i can paste in an address, receive co-ords and then paste elsewhere. ...
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Is it possible to use WiFi routers provided location in PC?

I am using broadband connection and my ISP’s location is about 15KM away from my home. Whenever I use some any map app to detect my current location it I think—not sure—it detects the location of my ...
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