clientLocation no more work

[Frédéric Hewitt]

Question in 2 parts :

1) Later this week, direct call to http://www.google.com/jsapi in
browser give me a correct geolocalization information. But today, I
find that my project no more work correctly, and further investigation
show me that the geolocalization work no more. (same workstation, same
provider, same physical location)

It's normal ?

2) What is strange is that many free open source geolocation (like
http://ipinfodb.com) still able to geolocalize me. It's a big surprise
for me, as I make the assumption that the Google jsapi is better than
any other free solutions on the market for geolocalization. But this
assumption appear to be seriously false : it even don't give me a
partial result with the country !

This raise the second critical question : Can I test the ip
geolocalization for a wide range of specifics IPs ? And How ? I really
need to know the performance for a limited amount of specific little
cities.

[Jeremy Geerdes]

Unfortunately, this is a fairly common issue with the ClientLocation
functionality. It is not nearly as reliable as some other options out
there. And sadly, there is no graduated accuracy where it will return
state or country data even if it can't track down an IP address. And
no, there is no way to test for any IP address but your own.

Jeremy R. Geerdes
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