hi roomates! I'm using "max mind geo" javascript for an "ip" city identifier (forgive my noob jargon) the problem is it is consistent, but not all the time, it may say to my sites visitor "welcome to Los Angeles" but the next time for the same visitor it might show a different city, still the same geo general area, but not the same city.. and for what I'm doing it's really important that it be consistent........... anyone know of a solution more consistent ??? ( i notice when I go to the site myself it usually shows the same city I'm near, but on occasion shows a different city, also in this same area, usually it shows one of the two, I don't even care which one but just so long as it's the same one!) thanks peepers! open to your suggestion AMF~
Use a cookie..... if the cookie exists then read the location from the cookie, if the cookie doesnt exist then get the city by the geo script and create a cookie with the city in it. I don't know for the USA but certainly in the UK geolocation scripts are terribly unreliable as almost all companies are national and so have only a few (if not only 1) places IPs are registered to (my City has never been anything other than London even though I have never lived in London). Hell, even country isn;t always correct given the way that some international organisations do their infrastructure