Accuracy Of Location Data.

As far as I know, if someone is looking at a website on a mobile device it can be routed through various servers or hubs and the location will then show up as the last server it was connected through.

Here’s an explanation I found written by Bradford a few years ago, one of the other artists here.

When we look at the locations of visitors they are not always accurate. If the user is logged in to FAA, then the location will be shown as the location that the user gave when they registered to FAA. If the viewer is not logged in then the location is for the server that is connecting the user to the internet or an intermediary server or router, not the actual computer location. Ideally that would be a nearby server. But not always. Sometimes web traffic is routed through a server in another part of the country. To learn more about the Visitor you can to look at the IP address
Here is how. From your image page under� statistics� click on �view Recent�. Hover your pointer over the location and a number will appear. That is the Ip address of the visitor. In this case the number is 54.221.84.67. Put that into a Google search with the added letters IP so Google knows to find websites showing that IP address. There are many sites that have already retrieved the registered owners of the IP . You can pick one or more. From there you can find the registered user and the location. In this case the visit is actually from Amazon AWS in Auburn, VA. But don�t assume all visits from Beverly Hills are Amazon. You have to check each IP address. As to why they are visiting or if they are bots you can only guess.

I show as Beverly Hills sometimes

Thanks for the replies guys! Makes sense! Abbie I wouldn’t mind being in Beverly Hills!

it all depends where the wires are sent to. i'm in westfield nj, it shows rahway, that's just where the main hub is i guess. or if you are rerouted some place else.

----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

"Accuracy of geolocation database varies depending on which database you use. For IP-to-country database, some vendors claim to offer 98% to 99% accuracy although typical Ip2Country database accuracy is more like 95%. For IP-to-Region (or City), accracy range anywhere from 50% to 75% if neighboring cities are treated as correct. Considering that there is no official source of IP-to-Region information, 50+% accuracy is pretty good. "

-- https://www.iplocation.net/

I am in Massachusetts on The East Coast. A friend who is also in Massachusetts bought some of my images and his visits showed as as Beverly Hills on the West Coast. As others have stated it depends what servers and hubs the visit is routed through

When I work on my desktop at home on Comcast Internet I may see my location as one of three places. That always seems strange to me considering I'm on a cable modem and not a mobile connection.

Physical location of the computer and/or router isn't the determining factor in IP geolocation. It's based on who the IP address is leased to and what information they make available as to where they use it. (some databases try to discerne locations from outside sources, hence the varying reliabilty)

Just because Cupertino shows up as a location, that doesn't mean that traffic went anywhere near Cupertino. It may just be that the IP address used at the time was leased to a company with operations in Cupertino. The IP address could have been used anywhere that they also operate.

Network connections take lots of hops and are generally bounced to the next node that's least busy in that particular millisecond, so it's generally not a straight line between A and B and, if you're moving a large file, it's probably split into pieces that can be routed through different places. It's really amazing that all this stuff works at all but fortunately bytes don't care and routers spend their lives being OCD and never get tired unless the power goes out.

It has nothing to do with traffic routes and hops, it's purely a case of where the IP address of the requesting device is believed to be.

Of course if you're behind a NAT, the requesting IP address might not be your IP address either.

"The poverty rate in Beverly Hills is 9.3%. One out of every 10.8 residents of Beverly Hills lives in poverty."

If one desires to live in Beverly Hills, you might want to be more specific as to the location.

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