![]() If the website asking for your location calls on the new HTML 5 Geolocation API instead of trying to determine it based on your IP address, you’ll get a much more relevant result. If you need accurate and specific location data to sent to web tools, advanced browsers lets you manually set your location to a specific longitude and latitude. That’s generally “close enough” if you’re in a major city, but outside any metro area things get off pretty quickly-thanks to my ISP’s weird re-routing, most websites think I’m about 150 miles east of where I actually am. ![]() That’s usually not true with laptop and desktop PCs, where location access is usually determined based on your IP address. Thanks to built-in GPS, network triangulation, and other goodies, it’s possible for them to use a more-or-less exact location for apps and website tools.
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