[9510] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: geographical info vs. network topology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Dionne x5551)
Tue Dec 26 12:17:53 1995
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 95 11:55:52 EST
From: md@marvin.hq.ileaf.com (Mark Dionne x5551)
To: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Are there good reasons to want the longitude and latitude of
a WWW client? In commerce, there are LOTS of reasons one might
want to know geographical information about a client site, even
if only approximate and not available part of the time.
Some examples:
- A distributor of furniture has an agreement with a manufacturer
limiting his region to east of the Mississippi river. They want
to put up a web site but they are not permitted to distribute
their catalog outside their region.
- A large breakfast cereal company puts up a promitional web site,
but it has many products that each have limited geographical
distribution.
- A company is test-marketing a product in a certain region...
- You want to list an "800" phone number in your document, and you
will save money if you list the one that is closest to the
client.
- A site for a politician wants to present different messages to
different regions of the country. :-)
I guarantee you that it won't be long before commercial sites
get really good at determining the geographical location, and a
lot more, about most hits at a site. They will be getting the info
through PSI, Netcom, AOL, Microsoft etc.
Mark Dionne
md@ileaf.com
