<story><title>Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API</title><url>https://ipdata.co</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>&amp;gt; Get the following datapoints from any IP address;&lt;p&gt;Again :-( I just wonder if people will ever stop making assumptions about others given their IP address or hair colours and divide the Internet on these slippery grounds. The only legitimate and valid way to determine the client&amp;#x27;s location automatically is the browser or the OS geolocation API, and for the language it is the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE header. The fact I have contacted your server from an IP address assigned to a Chinese ISP neither means I&amp;#x27;m in China nor that I speak Chinese.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duiker101</author><text>Believe it or not, you make up about 0.000001%[1] of the internet users. There is no saying in what this can be applied, it doesn&amp;#x27;t have to be for language or anything like that. It doesn&amp;#x27;t even have to be anything customer facing, and if it&amp;#x27;s just some stats you will probably probably just be a bit of noise.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong. I totally agree that this thing is definitely not accurate(it thinks i&amp;#x27;m 1300mi away) but it&amp;#x27;s good enough to get a general idea.&lt;p&gt;[1] made up number to get my point across</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API</title><url>https://ipdata.co</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>&amp;gt; Get the following datapoints from any IP address;&lt;p&gt;Again :-( I just wonder if people will ever stop making assumptions about others given their IP address or hair colours and divide the Internet on these slippery grounds. The only legitimate and valid way to determine the client&amp;#x27;s location automatically is the browser or the OS geolocation API, and for the language it is the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE header. The fact I have contacted your server from an IP address assigned to a Chinese ISP neither means I&amp;#x27;m in China nor that I speak Chinese.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjeaff</author><text>This comment reminds me of the couple of people on HN that complain everytime someone shows off a new product and it doesn&amp;#x27;t work well in their text only lynx browser.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s such an extreme edge case that it doesn&amp;#x27;t really matter. (unless you are of course targeting that type of market).&lt;p&gt;In other words, IP address gives a general location in a huge number of cases.</text></comment>