>I was oversimplifying a bit. Was the pin you saw orange, or green?
>The green pin uses information from the browser, but the orange one is
>based on looking your IP address up in a database. Orange. In that case, I'm impressed; that type of lookup usually thinks I'm in Biddeford (where my ISP's office is). "Helpful" retail websites like Home Depot, for instance, are forever pointing me at that store rather than one that's anywhere near me.
(It was also labeled something like "project", which is what led me to interpret it as the system's attempt at indicating where it was.)
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