Slashgeo Log In
IP Addresses Geolocation
posted by Satri
on Thursday October 02, @09:27AM
Permalink
Trackback URI
Slashdotthis
Diggthis
Del.icio.us
from the we-know-where-you-are dept.
Permalink
Trackback URI
Slashdotthis
Diggthis
Del.icio.us
from the we-know-where-you-are dept.
APB links to a Wall Street Journal article on IP addresses geolocation. See also these two previous stories.
From the article: "Still, geolocation technology won't pinpoint Web visitors' locations beyond the city level, which won't satisfy advertisers seeking to target potential customers by neighborhood or street. "That might be the next forefront people might try to push toward," says Dane Walther, director of custom engineering at Cambridge, Mass.-based Akamai Technologies Inc., which has a geolocation product. "There's certainly interest from marketers, who always want to get as detailed, as local as they can."
[...]
Marie Alexander, Quova's chief executive, says one manufacturer told her that it has found a transaction to be fraudulent in 73% of cases where the state in the credit-card billing address doesn't match the state associated with the IP address. "It's a huge savings to pull those [transactions] out," she says."
Related Stories
Application Domains: Mapping the Digital Divide with IP Addresses
[+]
Very Spatial links to a map of IP addresses per capita. From the entry: "As seen in the shaded map above, it's the African countries and disputed territories that have the highest ration of people to assigned IPs. The least IP-dense country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been stricken by war during the main period of growth of the internet, and has likely suffered. There is a clear reflection of GNP in these figures too - those countries with lower GDPs have similarly lower concentrations of IPs."
New Maps of The Internet 1 comment
[+]
Slashdot discuss a story about new maps of Internet geographical connections. Their summary: "The Chris Harrison project has created a series of maps that show the geographical structure and distribution of the Internet. At the site you can view a global, geo-spatial map of the global internet. The visualizations were put together using data from the Dimes project. One visualization shows the density of Internet connections worldwide while the other displays how international cities are connected. Detailed Maps of Europe and North America are included as well. It's amazing how skewed the distribution is — beyond Australia, New Zealand, and parts of South-East Asia, the southern hemisphere has only a peppering of connectivity." See related stories below.
IP Addresses Geolocation
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
