mapped.at blog » firefox http://mapped.at/blog mapping, tracking, tagging and GPS Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:49:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Browser Geolocation in Firefox (and others…) – problems… http://mapped.at/blog/2009/07/13/browser-geolocation-in-firefox-and-others-problems/ http://mapped.at/blog/2009/07/13/browser-geolocation-in-firefox-and-others-problems/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:31:53 +0000 admin http://mapped.at/blog/2009/07/13/browser-geolocation-in-firefox-and-others-problems/ Just read an interesting (although rather long) piece over at xconomy on geolocation in browsers.

As you can imagine, mapped.at is rather interested in geolocation and so we have been playing with the feature in Firefox, and we were very impressed (and a little bit spooked) by the accuracy. However, some reports have emerged of a users being ‘located’ many miles (some times hundreds of miles) away from their real physical location.

The article at xconomy follows up on the story, explains how the systems work, and how it can sometimes get it so wrong. An interesting read….

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