I know where you live!

by Steven Garrity

Well, I don’t know where you live. But someone does.

This site plots your location on a blank canvas – you can see the rough outlines of the US and Europe forming already. Spread the love.

 

27 thoughts on “I know where you live!”

  3. It got me down to within about 5 miles. Pretty disturbing, considering I didn’t give it any additional information.

  4. Does a traceroute on your IP. Perhaps the creator himself can come forth and explain?

  5. Came close but not as perfect as Rico or Ted. Im currently located in downtown Charlottetown connected to Eastlinks high speed.

    “I am 90% sure that you are from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Lat: 44 / Long: -63).”

  7. Basically, the site reads your IP, pumps it through a web service to determine the location, and renders the graphics on the fly.

    I’ll be making the source code available to anyone that’s interested in it. Just send me an e-mail. It’s done in C#/ASP.NET

    Thanks for visiting, and spread the word guys!

  9. Hey, at least when it’s wrong, it tells you it’s probably wrong. Better than most software products that simply give you a supposedly-correct answer with no disclaimer. 🙂

  13. Now that I am 35 km out of Charlottetown, it is 99% sure that I am there. Is the software showing some vanity now?

  14. It pegged me in fredericton, bang on.
    pretty cool…we need more ppl from along the coasts to try it to get a better picture of the land masses..

  16. I dialed in this morning and it was only 50% sure I was in “Prestwick, Strathclyde, United Kingdom”. Later I dialed in and it was much more sure I was in “Central London” which is much closer to the truth. It seems to be tracking me down!

  17. Nick, could it be that it has learned something between the two sign ins? Could it process your information through a cookie to get a better trace on you?

  18. I guess I’m safe from it tracking me down – I’m on a dynamic IP dialup at home, and can’t even get to the thing from work as for some strange reason it’s running on port 3 and so gets blocked by the firewall!

  19. I don’t think so Al. I assume my dial-up provider has several locations or several addresses that I get assigned dynamically when I login. It’s really just the luck of the draw where it thinks I am. It thinks I’m back in Prestwick now…

  21. Dang; the site has gone down. “Sorry, everyone. Too much traffic. Everything melted.”

    Ouch.

  23. The fun is not so over: at xpenguin.com there’s this IP-Atlas which is a PHP application that plots your location on the world map (try it: is it more or less accurate than the James Archer’s one?). Everyone with PHP and some server space can modify the script to store the locations traced in the image. Storing the locations in a database and then re-tracing them everytime slows down the whole thing a lot. So: enjoy!

  25. Me too:

    “(You) at islandtelecom255-42.islandtelecom.com (142.177.255.42) are located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.”

    Interesting that Island Tel now resides in Ottawa. Perhaps the BCE/Aliant/Island Tel personality farce is coming to an end.

  26. I got identified correctly in Charlottetown, PE. However, the mark on the map fell somewhere in eastern Ontario, almost 1000km from here.

Comments are closed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)