06.10.2011 13:20, Hendrik T. Voelker пишет:
There are other aspects as well. There are for sure lots of people out there who do NOT want their IP address geolocated. And then there are different privacy regulation in every country which have to be observed.
Also depending on the internal routing of the IP address possessor, the real location can vary heavily and the whole network is not necessarily used completely at the same location. In the end you'd have to attach a current location to every single address ...
If anybody should submit the current location it is the end user alone. It's all true only in case of publishing precise location - up to meters (in form of coordinates, of cause). But no one insist on such accuracy - you can give a rough coordinates with only accuracy up to street or even city.
-- With best regards, Dennis Yusupoff, network engineer of Smart-Telecom ISP Russia, Saint-Petersburg