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How close is the map on the homepage?

<1 mile 21,815 (18.53%)
  
1-10 miles 31,537 (26.79%)
  
11-25 miles 17,971 (15.27%)
  
26-100 miles 17,280 (14.68%)
  
100-250 miles 8,815 (7.49%)
  
250+ miles 14,061 (11.95%)
  
Not Displayed 6,224 (5.29%)
  
117,703 votes
105 comments
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Default Map
Authored by: Admin on Friday, April 06 2007 @ 07:17 am PDT
Added a default map. Removed "Wrong Planet" and "What Map?" from the voting options. Added "Not Displayed" option.
peter221
Authored by: peter221 on Tuesday, April 10 2007 @ 07:15 am PDT
my ip address is 250 miles off my home station
  • peter221 - Authored by: raed on Thursday, January 31 2008 @ 10:31 pm PST
geo oops
Authored by: bolted on Wednesday, April 11 2007 @ 12:38 pm PDT
map shows west coast.. I live on the east coast
  • geo oops - Authored by: jkw0904 on Wednesday, November 07 2007 @ 10:15 am PST
Map accuracy
Authored by: servant on Friday, April 13 2007 @ 11:05 pm PDT
100% right.
Jim
Authored by: Jim on Monday, April 30 2007 @ 04:38 pm PDT
I checked it with Google earth, and it's RIGHT ON!
map error
Authored by: Vasyl on Monday, May 21 2007 @ 07:24 am PDT
I live in Europe but map displayed my longitude and latitude (which are correctly determined) on the oceania or malaysia region.
  • map error - Authored by: Vasyl on Monday, May 21 2007 @ 07:27 am PDT
Tor rocks
Authored by: JBotAlan on Saturday, June 02 2007 @ 06:17 pm PDT
Tor is working its magic--I am not anywhere near Utah...
address pinpoint
Authored by: aethandor on Saturday, June 09 2007 @ 03:24 am PDT
nowhere near
I'm right up at the top of Scotland near Tongue whereas
the address is showing in South London (Eltham). About
650+ miles out!
IP Map
Authored by: CDCassler on Sunday, June 10 2007 @ 11:28 am PDT
I live approx. 5 miles north of what is shown on map.
40 32 67.76 N
80 00 26.82 W
This is the coordinates given by Google Earth.
Map view
Authored by: Locke on Monday, June 11 2007 @ 10:52 am PDT
I can't seem to vote, but the maps location is extremely close to me. I'd say < 2 miles off.
perfect!!!!
Authored by: _steppingstone on Saturday, July 07 2007 @ 11:11 pm PDT
Right on top of my house!!!! well it might be over my next door neighbors house, but its that close
My ISP as shown on the map is...
Authored by: Jack Ammann on Friday, July 20 2007 @ 12:57 am PDT
...dead on accurate.

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Best regards,

Jack Ammann

Dichtbij
Authored by: eindhovuh on Saturday, July 28 2007 @ 05:09 am PDT
Minder dan 300 meter. (<300m.)
2 miles off
Authored by: qosmio on Sunday, August 12 2007 @ 08:28 am PDT
its 2 miles off

but how to vote????
close
Authored by: klonk on Friday, August 17 2007 @ 12:22 pm PDT
I am less than 11 miles from what the map shows as is probably the main hub of my isp.
Close
Authored by: celtmaidn on Monday, August 27 2007 @ 01:52 am PDT
Less than 5 miles, but that can still cover a lot of area.
100 percent accurate
Authored by: michaelgti on Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 10:36 am PDT
Have been trying over a dozen different ip locators...
This is the ONLY one that gave the correct city for my query...
within 2 miles
Authored by: michaelgti on Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 10:46 am PDT
As for my ip address, it is within 2 miles of my office.
Closer... But Still Not Really Close
Authored by: yamato on Saturday, September 08 2007 @ 06:25 am PDT
A Few Months Ago It Display Mt. Laruel, NJ. A Few weeks ago West Hartford, CT and now New Haven, CT. Why all these changes?
What!!?
Authored by: yamato on Saturday, September 08 2007 @ 06:27 am PDT
Here: http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/iplocation.asp?ipaddress=76.23.226.174
it shows the location as berlin CT. my response: ARGH!!
why does tcp/ip have to be so difficult!
spot on
Authored by: mapfiend on Wednesday, September 19 2007 @ 05:23 pm PDT
Within a mile of my location.
IP lookup
Authored by: jules on Thursday, September 20 2007 @ 05:35 am PDT
I love it, its a great tool and thankyou for making it available. I will certainly be using it in the future.
I love this site,
cheers,
Jules
How far off ?
Authored by: Big10Inch on Sunday, September 23 2007 @ 01:11 pm PDT
About 2miles off---- This will help me stalk-- I mean locate an exgirlfriend who stole many things from me...
Poll
Authored by: an0ny1mu5 on Monday, September 24 2007 @ 09:08 pm PDT
The map was 250+ miles off in the wrong country, but it's not the website's faulty my software is working correctly:D
IP accuracy
Authored by: AUDRAE on Monday, October 01 2007 @ 09:53 am PDT
10 miles off
Actual site location
Authored by: connie vloutely on Monday, November 12 2007 @ 03:26 pm PST
My location is 30 miles for where IP site tool reported
Waaaaay offf!
Authored by: wumingzi on Thursday, November 29 2007 @ 06:33 pm PST
I'm on a bus in downtown Seattle, but the map says I'm in Southern California.
1-5 miles
Authored by: tekj2000 on Thursday, December 06 2007 @ 02:30 am PST
i can see the arrow from my window
Map poll
Authored by: Bohauo on Thursday, December 13 2007 @ 02:49 pm PST
7 miles off....
My Location
Authored by: bpicinc on Saturday, December 15 2007 @ 05:04 pm PST
Map is showing me 80 miles away.
Map Location
Authored by: Gelu on Friday, December 28 2007 @ 10:53 pm PST
My city is Sibiu !
hi
Authored by: kames on Saturday, January 05 2008 @ 07:47 pm PST
where is my ip address?

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James Aambler
you should truncate the ip address string
Authored by: bgould on Tuesday, January 22 2008 @ 09:49 am PST
If I enter a space after the ip address, it fails with a "bad ip address" The extra space is sometimes a result of copy and paste.
1,58 miles
Authored by: darkness on Sunday, February 03 2008 @ 07:24 am PST
my gateway in my house is 1,58 miles away from the placemark!
To Stealthy...
Authored by: Stealth on Tuesday, February 05 2008 @ 12:40 am PST
Apparently this only works when it wants to, so according to this detector I'm at
Germany eating Hamburg surfing the web.
When really I'm 2,500 miles away sitting on my laptop Eating a peanut butter and fluff sandwich enjoying every moment knowing my identity will never be stolen :)
Cheers, Stealth
Hong Kong?
Authored by: aplo on Monday, February 18 2008 @ 03:57 pm PST
Wrong continent!!!! Tor seems to work fine!
close, but no cigar
Authored by: gtoji on Tuesday, February 26 2008 @ 03:39 pm PST
map location was about 8 miles from my house, the fact that I'm on a wireless network w/ dynamic IP address may make it less accurate. The location on the map is where I know the ISP router hub for my area is. Question, by next year all of the twin cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) will be covered by a government funded wireless network open to anyone who wants to use that service (effectively making the twin cities one large WLAN network) the wireless modems/routers are mounted on every third telephone pole, anyways, will this make it easier to pinpoint your location using this service, or harder?
hmmm....
Authored by: markantonij on Sunday, March 16 2008 @ 06:23 pm PDT
show me Erfurt,Germany when i'm currently in Japan,Kioto.
Map
Authored by: Gelu on Wednesday, March 19 2008 @ 12:26 am PDT
my ip adress is 250 miles of my city.
Accuracy
Authored by: okok525 on Friday, March 21 2008 @ 08:44 pm PDT
About 5 miles off. Of the known IP addresses I have, none are dead on accurate, but most are within 10 miles.
Map view wrong
Authored by: olgorofi on Wednesday, March 26 2008 @ 10:40 am PDT
My IP 201.58.140.54 is generated in BELO HORIZONTE -MINAS GERAIS - BRAZIL. The result view is wrong (Campestre 15 Brazil). The distance difference is aproxim. 200 miles.

Thanks

olgorofi
A dead end
Authored by: kevsamo on Monday, April 21 2008 @ 02:37 pm PDT
I did a trace route and was mildly surprised to see it gave Lat and Long in the results.
(This was before I read this poll)
So I copied and pasted into Google Earth (latest update is kewl!)
to see how accurate it was.
It was some miles off (I live at the beach).
I was a bit disconcerted with where it says I live ....

see for yourself...

34.0416N 118.2988W
Over 500 miles off course
Authored by: lakelandgrey on Friday, April 25 2008 @ 03:44 pm PDT
I do not live on the mainland but the map puts me in the Yorkshire Dales so I assume I am safe?
within 15 miles
Authored by: emilecilliers on Friday, May 02 2008 @ 03:21 pm PDT
within 15 miles
way out
Authored by: CaptainParalytic on Saturday, May 03 2008 @ 10:52 am PDT
The map is way out, 76 miles out in fact.

How come this site doesn't have a way to correct it?
Ip location was wrong
Authored by: ksf on Monday, May 05 2008 @ 11:30 pm PDT
The map indicated I live in Bunbury, 180km south of where I actually do live. It wasn't very close but at least it was in the right state!
Not showing
Authored by: nomercy on Saturday, May 10 2008 @ 11:39 pm PDT
It's showing BSNL Pune server insted of my actual location Mumbai ;)
Regarding address to admin
Authored by: gentle on Wednesday, May 14 2008 @ 10:46 pm PDT
How do you get an address? Is it available via an ISP? How can I know address of an IP?
weird, accurate only on Firefox
Authored by: giadda on Monday, June 02 2008 @ 05:32 pm PDT
on the map, im right on spot if i'm using Firefox

but more than 250miles away if i'm using IE7..
pps
Authored by: ppseals on Monday, June 02 2008 @ 08:05 pm PDT
About 50 miles or more off.
What Planet?
Authored by: imnotthesame on Thursday, June 05 2008 @ 08:59 pm PDT
I'm in NY and the map shows Kansas.
Wrong
Authored by: Marines862 on Wednesday, June 18 2008 @ 07:08 am PDT
Well for my home Ip its about 30 miles off and for my website its oh a good 2000+ miles wrong
Map accuracy
Authored by: NeilS on Friday, June 20 2008 @ 03:12 am PDT
Pretty good, about 100 yards from where my PC is. However map shows me in a middle of a rail track where trains go at up to 125mph, not so good!!!
Map Location
Authored by: lysander on Tuesday, June 24 2008 @ 10:14 am PDT
Although the map location shown for me on the home page is off by about 7 miles, it probably accurately reflects the Comcast neighborhood router/head-end for my part of Tucson. Educated guess.
Close enough
Authored by: P.MOORE on Thursday, July 03 2008 @ 10:47 pm PDT
Your map is accurate enough for me. Berkeley is about 15-16 miles from me. What an eye opener. Thanks.
Map location
Authored by: alex.burlacu on Monday, July 07 2008 @ 10:07 am PDT
My ip is shown at more than 250 miles from my home address :) i'm in two places same time... Yeap! :) i'm a jumper???
LOL!!!
Authored by: sameastham on Tuesday, July 15 2008 @ 12:18 pm PDT
The map says I'm in West Virginia but I'm in St. Augustine, Florida
Default Map accuracy
Authored by: LordMarik on Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 09:30 pm PDT
Map is somewhat accurate. Location is within 2 miles, however when zoomed in I saw that it has my ip location in the middle of a pond that is about 1500 feet wide and about 30 feet deep. It'd be kinda cool to have an underwater crib but unfortunately I do not.. Shucks.
Not consistent
Authored by: jcmiras on Wednesday, July 23 2008 @ 08:51 pm PDT
It's not consistent sometimes its around 100 miles away, sometimes within 10 mile range.
Wow...ahhh Kansas? Please...
Authored by: gyro on Monday, July 28 2008 @ 11:19 pm PDT
Wow...apparently I live in Wichita Kansas...and here for all these years I've deluded myself into thinking I lived in Oregon...nice to know anyone trying to find me with my IP is royally screwed. Just for kicks I also sent myself an email and then copied the header into trace email. It did better, said I live in Mountain View California...but hey that's closer than Kansas haha.
250 miles out from where i'm living
Authored by: dj-toonz on Tuesday, July 29 2008 @ 07:40 pm PDT
Well it says i'm lving in mainhead in kent, when i live in Manchester :-(

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Close (spooky)
Authored by: lisati on Thursday, August 07 2008 @ 11:58 pm PDT
The first time I tried, the location was correct within 2 miles, but after resetting my router my ip address changed.....

I tried on another site which placed me in a prison in a city 600km away! D'oh!
scarry close
Authored by: bad406camaro on Tuesday, August 12 2008 @ 04:10 pm PDT
wow the map was very scarry close. i have purchased anonymizer and am very happy with the results. i tried the free trial offer and with in 3 days i purchased the product. i did have to call customer support when i had a prolbem updating but it turned out to be a issue with how windows was updating but they helped me anyway. a+++ software
309 miles off
Authored by: JameZS on Monday, August 18 2008 @ 10:38 am PDT
I live near Edinburgh in Scotland and the map showed Coventry in England. I am quite worried now because sometimes, quite randomly, my laptop starts playing music even though I'm not, so I think i should check it out to see if someone has access to my laptop.
Same country. Different State
Authored by: Dreamfrog on Sunday, August 24 2008 @ 02:43 pm PDT
I am viewing this page on a cellphone browser so it is showing my providers company office in Rhode Island instead of Vermont where I am living and using the phone. Not sure the distance from there to here. 5 hour travel time.
MAP IS WAY OFF
Authored by: cruel69bitch on Sunday, September 07 2008 @ 11:22 am PDT
The map shows that I am in Dallas when in fact I am in Weatherford it's like 100 miles off
disturbingly accurate
Authored by: greyhathacker on Tuesday, September 23 2008 @ 08:30 am PDT
disturbingly close, got it exactly *shudder*
Miles away
Authored by: xenophobic on Monday, September 29 2008 @ 11:14 am PDT
I was told my IP address was in Brighton.I am 465 Miles away In Edinburgh.At least its the right country.........
way off
Authored by: owlz on Monday, October 13 2008 @ 02:34 pm PDT
Off by over 100 miles!!
Latitude/Longitude valus are incorrect
Authored by: bellskar on Sunday, November 09 2008 @ 11:24 am PST
Latitude/Longitude valus are incorrect. and so the map is being located 100s of miles away from the correct location
Obsolete metric of distance
Authored by: massar on Monday, November 10 2008 @ 05:33 am PST
Your estimate of our location was off by 10 kilometers.
This error may or may not have been caused by your use of an ancient metric of distance called "mile".
This is a bad practice, likely to introduce calculation errors, as demonstrated by crashing mars landers and other disasters.
In our country, as in most parts of the civilised world, people are using the metric system.
Anonymity Confirmed :)
Authored by: bugmenot on Sunday, November 16 2008 @ 11:54 am PST
One of the reasons I chose my ISP is because my IP is so dynamic, and not geographically coded; every time I renew it I get a completely different location, hundreds of miles away. Not going to disclose who my ISP are though, else they might decide to "fix" it (break it) hehe.
Location
Authored by: McNasty1 on Thursday, November 20 2008 @ 02:15 pm PST
Right on the money!!!
hmmm
Authored by: Sheighnah on Wednesday, December 03 2008 @ 07:16 pm PST
it got me in the same city... wrong side of it... about 10km off
The map is...
Authored by: Blau on Monday, December 29 2008 @ 04:39 pm PST
50 miles off.
Nice work though.
Far away!
Authored by: pr.nizar on Sunday, January 04 2009 @ 09:04 am PST
Really too far! 250+ miles!!
ip locate off
Authored by: mumbaihawk on Wednesday, January 07 2009 @ 01:40 pm PST
It said i was in Springfield Mo. and I am 60 miles west and south of there on I 44 in the city of Joplin Mo. It is att dsl and they may feed the net from Springfield. I know it gets bad ever time it storms and I am thinking it is microwave or satellite do to the way it acts during the storm.
Mumbai Hawk

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map
Authored by: DianaRN on Sunday, January 18 2009 @ 08:10 pm PST
Location of my IP addy on the map is dead on :-)
MR V BRIGGS
Authored by: dosser2007 on Monday, January 19 2009 @ 04:09 am PST
they say my ip adress is in high wycombe but i live in southampton how can this be accurate then
how to see the house
Authored by: AlienRambo on Wednesday, January 28 2009 @ 12:03 pm PST
i have a problem i wanna locate a house with his ip adress....how do i do that ??
2091.7 miles wrong!!!
Authored by: DocSavage on Monday, February 16 2009 @ 06:04 am PST
2091.7 miles wrong!!! Gotta love these proxy servers....
2 attemps 2 different results
Authored by: MartinNo2 on Monday, February 23 2009 @ 10:50 am PST
I found my ISP's location < 1/2 mile from where I am, then reconnected and it's now 7 miles away from me ... (cannot find the vote button on this poll)
Scary but wow
Authored by: Addashaw on Tuesday, March 03 2009 @ 05:38 pm PST
I did not think that it would be that accurate it was about 300 yards off which is a little scary though i am very interested in internet because it scientifically is a whole separate dimension. I may only be less than 18 but i know more than most adults
How close is the map on the homepage?
Authored by: jmsutor on Sunday, March 22 2009 @ 02:51 pm PDT
about 100 miles off, but still the most accurate tool on the web. I have tried over 10 different providers