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You got my GPS coordinates almost exactly correct. That's incredibly worrying.

I mean, it's impressive from a technical standpoint; but still, worrying.

It puts me hundreds of miles out, in the wrong country.

I find these IP lookup tools vary greatly - some will match certain IP blocks better than others.

Yeah, accuracy definitely varies by ISP, and region. If you'd be willing to share your IP or ISP with me (ben@ipinfo.io) I'd love to look into it and see what we might have been able to do / be able to do in the future to get a more precise location for you.

No offense, but I'd rather it wasn't too accurate ;)

City level result here. Do you happen to live close to a center point of something?

Yes, that's a reasonable explanation. I'm near enough to the middle of my town for that to be the cause.

Yeah, the geolocation is city/zip level accuracy. The coordinates are the centroid of the city or zip, not a specific point.

Read an article where people were coming to people's houses demanding their phone etc. because the location for that "region" was mapped to their backyard.

It got me within one city block of my location. I’m in NYC.

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