And then there was this deplorable incident ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/653846/posts ) in which changing the batteries in a special forces' air controller's GPS receiver caused it to reset and display its current location rather than the previously dialled in coordinates of a target, resulting in a fatal friendly fire incident.
Moral of story; if you're building a geolocation database or application of any kind it's a really good idea to ensure that the default values it returns in event of a reset or a query with inadequate input parameters points somewhere harmless or pointedly asks, "are you sure about that?"
There actually is a weather bouy at 0, 0. It's mapped in OpenStreetMap with a note of "This is actually here, it's no a bug"
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3815077900Both need to be permitted. Ideally by way of sum types, but Kotlin's approach should be okay.
I can def see detective Jonhson trying to find child pornographer X with a warrant to get their location based on an ip. The company doing the geolocation might or might not tell them: this is the gps coords, but with an error of a few thousand kms.
Now, if the Arnold's ever want to do something "bad", their situation could've been the perfect cover up :-)
Well if we're talking about safe expectations... there are no expectations. Pretty sure it'd not even get the planet right for browsers from the international space station, or the continent if your IP is newly registered (e.g. IPv6, but even for IPv4 this still happens).
Cities, in my experience, are often correct and are usually the closest you get.
In reality, it should probably return a shape file of some sort.
I've used max mind 5 days a week for years and have never seen this effect.
People watch too much CSI. That's not Maxminds fault.
LEO should be contacting the ISP to get warrants for the customer/ip records. The ISP should know who had what IP when. And the ISP knows where that customer lives because of reasons.
tl;dr - maxmind did nothing wrong, LEO watches too much CSI
Maxmind could have moved it to a lake or something, but other than that I see no fault on their part.
http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansa...