Re: Query Distances from User

Thank you for the great information!

Currently I'm focused on my desktop browser platform but if I move to mobile I'll consider GeoLocation!

JJ

On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:56:34 AM UTC-4, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

On 15-7-2012 4:30, JJ Zolper wrote:

> So i was thinking maybe GeoIP might be good because it will use the users
> location and last known GeoIP of the artist for example.
>
> I was curious if anyone had any ideas or better ideas then I had.

IP addresses are only good if the remote address matches the physical
location [1].

Using geolocation [2] is probably a better solution especially since the
user can opt-in with it, support is growing [3] and available in mobile
devices.

[1]
<http://serverfault.com/questions/125944/with-more-mobile-users-my-geo-ip-database-is-becoming-useless>
[2] <http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/geolocation/>
[3] <http://diveintohtml5.info/geolocation.html>
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