LAST EDITED ON Apr-22-17 AT 06:59 PM (EDT)
>>>There are people who have issues with this method. Generally because
>>>that geographic centre happens to land on their home.
>>
>>Yes, one occasionally sees horror stories in the news about hapless
>>randos who are constantly besieged by people who think they've stolen
>>their phones, or distributed porn of their kids, or otherwise done
>>some deeply egregious thing that some online detective has "traced" to
>>their house.
>
>As I recall, the biggest one is that one of the more "untracable"
>addresses got assigned a random position... that happened to be a
>house.Yeah, I think I've heard of the one you mean, and IIRC it's one of the "center of region" problems. Like some house that happens to stand at the geographic center of, I forget, the state it's in, or the continental US, or some such. So it's the location that pops up if the best the system can tell is "it's somewhere in Colorado" (or wherever), but those systems don't bother mentioning that the error bars on the fix are 1,750 miles wide.
(I've heard of a similar one in Florida, which is doubly unfortunate for the people that live there because it attracts all the craziness of our craziest state in addition to all the other nonsense you can expect under those conditions.)
--G.
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