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2007-10-15 , 05:14
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#8
Originally Posted by DataPath View Post
There are tools like Plazer that can roughly identify your location based on the access-point you're connected to. There's geo-location of IPs (even more crude). There are a couple other methods to gather information about physical location, GPS only being one of them (and the most accurate, but dependent upon satellite availability).
Combination of these methods, like GeoClue does is the best approach. GPS is great when it has a fix, but has no idea of your location when indoors.

For example IP-based geolocation is not very accurate, but can anyway be used for things like getting local weather or setting the timezone.