[Geowanking] LBS foolin': where the web thinks you are

[Barry Hunter]

You might also want to checkout
http://hostip.info/
"Hostip.info is a community-based project to geolocate IP addresses, making 
the database freely available (see below) but it needs you to put in your 
city to make it work."

For the DNS records
http://dns-loc.mapper.ofdoom.com/
which is building a database available here:
http://dns-loc.mapper.ofdoom.com/bulk/
(if you know of any other domains with such records then ping them to let 
them know!)

(apologies if you already know about these!)

Barry
- www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk -

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronan Oger" <ronan at roasp.com>
To: <geowanking at lists.burri.to>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:46 PM
Subject: [Geowanking] LBS foolin': where the web thinks you are


> Some trivia:
>
> Here is a simple hack between lbs data and google to spy on domain 
> locations
> and to see where online shops may think we are visiting from.
>
> http://www.roitsystems.com/cgi-bin/lbs/test.pl
>
> or...
>
> where an IP actually is:
> http://www.roitsystems.com/cgi-bin/lbs/test.pl?ip=99.255.255.255
>
> or...
> see where a domain is hosted:
> http://www.roitsystems.com/cgi-bin/lbs/test.pl?host=pravda.com
>
> I know, it's useless trivia. and I also know, it's not particularly
> interactive. But what the hell...
>
> Before people get mad at me, I am using a demo version of a database from
> ip2location who claim that it is accurate as of July. I hope not, since 
> they
> put me alternatively in Ghana and Isreal. Not quite Zurich...
>
> The single-cpu 1-year subscription is about USD800, so since I dont really 
> see
> a monetizing stream for this, I will stick to the demo data for now.
> Apologies to anyone who is placed squarely in the Atlantic...
>
> Also, we can all recall that claiming to be somewhere is different than
> actually being there.
>
> I used Perl, google maps, and ip2location for this.
>
> Ronan
>
> Ronan Oger
>
> ronan.oger at vectoreal.com
> www.vectoreal.com ...for scalable solutions.
>
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