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Internet => Interesting Websites => Topic started by: geep on July 17, 2011, 01:07:43 PM

Title: Revolver Maps
Post by: geep on July 17, 2011, 01:07:43 PM

Just bumped into Revolver Maps (http://revolvermaps.com/). Well - I think they're rather neat. So put a globe on my own website - now just need to collect more hits to see the results - My modem stats (http://pgg999.co.uk/stats/)

Cheers,
Peter

Title: Re: Revolver Maps
Post by: AdrianH on July 17, 2011, 01:18:36 PM

Nice find, I have uses for that! Visted your site , I am not in Leeds but that is what the Geo location is for my ISP.

Title: Re: Revolver Maps
Post by: burakkucat on July 17, 2011, 05:46:55 PM

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So put a globe on my own website - now just need to collect more hits to see the results - My modem stats (http://pgg999.co.uk/stats/)

I've just visited your site and my hit was shown as from Bury St Edmunds (correct), Norfolk (incorrect - the county should be Suffolk, D'oh!).

Title: Re: Revolver Maps
Post by: geep on July 18, 2011, 09:25:04 AM

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my hit was shown as from Bury St Edmunds (correct), Norfolk (incorrect - the county should be Suffolk, D'oh!).My own hits show that I've moved from Herts to Surrey, but the town is correct. I wonder what database they use?
I also use http://beta.statcounter.com to log visits - the little 4 digit counter at the bottom left corner. It also lists the town correctly and but the wrong county.
Cheers,
Peter

Title: Re: Revolver Maps
Post by: kitz on July 18, 2011, 12:39:50 PM

Im not sure which database revolver maps use..  but a lot of sites use ip2location (http://www.ip2location.com/) database.

I tend to find that most sites will either list my location as London (my current ISP address) or Sheffield (my previous ISP address - no idea how that data was carried across to a new IP) 

.... and more recently Leeds which is incorrect but Im seeing a lot of sites assuming thats where Im located.  Revolver maps seems to put me at Leeds too.