When people with sleep apnea need a diagnosis they need to find a sleep clinic, ideally via a handy sleep clinics map. So I made one. It uses an IP to lat/lon database to try and focus the map automatically to where you are. Not very accurate but I'm trying to gauge whether it's accurate enough to keep it at the current auto zoom level. (US based IP's won't get to see this auto-zoom stuff.) It also calculates the nearest one and draws a line from your guesstimated position to the nearest pin point. So could you please have a look and let me know whether it zoomed to where you actually are. Or how far off it was. Thanks.
It is. I found a tutorial by someone, don't have the link not here now. It broke when FF1.5 came, to do with linebreaks but I got it working again. Anyway, you can see the code in view source (damn JS). Isle of Man seems to be a catch-all in this database for unknown IPs for some reason. I was hoping it at least zoomed to the right county.
If your IP address is located in London (which mine is) then it's not going to be useful for me because I'm up north a little, in Leeds I thought all IP addresses were located where the ISP servers are?
The Custom Markers link is here btw: http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps/custom.htm Entire UK shown for Spanish visitors is expected behaviour. Your IP is 'located' where the last trace comes from, not necessarily your ISP's HQ or datacentre as I understand it. But it isn't expected to be highly accurate, though the people at IP2Location claim something like 95% accurace at a certain geographic level (state or region if I remember correctly).