From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com>
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 16 October 2012, 13:24
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotices.
On 16 October 2012 13:14, Andrew Gray <
andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> On 16 October 2012 10:21, Charles Matthews
> <
charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
While we're on the topic: could someone add in the Cambridge meetup to
>> the current notice? Charles
>
> Done.
>
> (Still not sure if we should have this one national-level notice, or
> if we should try much more targeted ones - London area, Cambridge
> area, Manchester area, etc. Hmm.)
It is very difficult to accurately identify geographic locations
within the UK. IP addresses are generally assigned from an ISPs pool
which they use nationwide, so they just identify to wherever the ISP
is based.
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