Archived Kansas couple sues IP mapping firm for turning their life into a "digital hell" (arstechnica.com)
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Archived Kansas couple sues IP mapping firm for turning their life into a "digital hell" (arstechnica.com)
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https://archive.is/zDTQh :
"Technically, the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates of the center spot are 39°50′N 98°35′W. In digital maps, that number is an ugly one: 39.8333333,-98.585522." "This happens a lot: 5,000 companies rely on MaxMind’s IP mapping information, and in all, there are now over 600 million IP addresses associated with that default coordinate." "Randall Rathbun, the Arnolds’ lawyer, told Ars that this continues even now, months after Hill uncovered MaxMind’s error. “I think the last time the sheriff’s office was out was a month ago,” he said." "As any geography nerd knows, the precise center of the United States is in northern Kansas, near the Nebraska border." "All of these people are arriving because of a rounding error on a GPS location, which wrongly points people to their farm."
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