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Fixing Google geolocation screwups


From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 7 Apr 2015 22:26:09 -0000

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



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