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Vighanesh Gursale
Vighanesh Gursale

Reputation: 921

Track the exact location of IP address

I am trying to create an app to find the exact location of IP address. I did some research on IP addresses and many more. But whenever I try to locate an IP address it provides the location of Internet Service Provider. I want to track the exact geolocation or long & lat of that place. So can anyone help me out to let me know how to find the geolocation of Dynamic IP address

Upvotes: 1

Views: 10281

Answers (3)

Stephen C
Stephen C

Reputation: 719739

The information upon which such a service might (hypothetically) be based is not available. Ergo, the ISP level information is about as good as you are likely to get for wired IP addresses.

@salocinix wrote:

"The exact position of an end-user's IP is only store at the ISP database and is normally not given away."

The second part is definitely true. They don't and shouldn't give away details about their customers' physical locations. There are obvious privacy concerns with doing that.

But it is quite possible that the ISP doesn't store the customer's physical location at all. Certainly, there is no need for them to store it in the form of longitude and latitude. Whether they need to store it depends on who owns the wires. In Australia for instance, many customers' ISPs don't own the wires that carry the traffic to the customers' dwelling. In that case, the ISP (in theory) only needs to know the billing address for the customer. And then there is the case of ISPs who sell internet connectivity for mobile devices ... where the physical location of a given IP address can change on a minute-by-minute basis.

... just asking because google maps shows the exact location of my PC on map how does it work

The PC is most likely geolocating itself via a combination of GPS and triangulation of local wireless base stations.

Upvotes: 2

munkeyoto
munkeyoto

Reputation: 309

I urge you to read the following thread on NANOG which was written by Fred Baker of Cisco, author of 50 network related RFC's.

Well, let me ask you you think 171.70.120.60 is. I'll give you a hint; at this instant, there are 72 of us. Here's another question. Whom would you suspect 171.71.241.89 is? At this point in time, I am in Barcelona; if I were home, that would be my address as you would see it, but my address as I would see it would be in 10.32.244.216/29. There might be several hundred people you would see using 171.71.241.89;

Geolocating is gimmicky at best.

Upvotes: 0

salocinx
salocinx

Reputation: 3823

The exact position of an end-user's IP is only store at the ISP database and is normally not given away by the IS-provider. Try out the following link, you'll not achieve much more precision.

http://www.iplocation.net/index.php

Upvotes: 0

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