[179290] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blair Trosper)
Tue Apr 7 19:17:22 2015
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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 18:17:20 -0500
From: Blair Trosper <blair.trosper@gmail.com>
To: "Aaron C. de Bruyn" <aaron@heyaaron.com>
Cc: NANOG mailing list <nanog@nanog.org>
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No, Google has their own internal system. Doubt MaxMind will help out.
This discussions and others like it may lead you in the right direction:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/fkyem9xUKOQ
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Aaron C. de Bruyn <aaron@heyaaron.com>
wrote:
> You might try here: https://www.maxmind.com/en/correction
>
> -A
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Fred Hollis <fred@web2objects.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for sending this to the list: We have the very same issue as well
> > (both IPv4+IPv6). If someone knows the magic button to solve this, please
> > contact me as well.
> >
> >
> > On 08.04.2015 at 00:26 John Levine wrote:
> >>
> >> A friend of mine lives in Alabama and has business service from at&t.
> >> But Google thinks he's in France. We've checked for various
> >> possibilities of VPNs and proxies and such, and it's pretty clear that
> >> the Goog's geolocation for addresses around 99.106.185.0/24 is screwed
> >> up. Bing and other services correctly find him in Alabama.
> >>
> >> Poking around I see lots of advice about how to use Google's
> >> geolocation data, but nothing on how to update it. Anyone
> >> know the secret? TIA
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
> >> Dummies",
> >> Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail.
> http://jl.ly
> >>
> >>
> >
>
