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where are you, who who, who who... danny burstein 06-30-08
Posted by Jeff Liebermann on July 1, 2008, 7:41 pm
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wrote:

>>I haven't installed it on my current laptop. Does it still work for you?

>I don't have it installed on any of my machines. However, it was
>installed with MS Streets and Traps on a customers machine now in my
>office. The problem is that I can't uninstall it because it demands
>the CD, which has disappeared. I'll try it when I get to the office.

It doesn't work. I right click on the icon in the system tray, select
"Locate Me" and it takes me to:
<http://maps.live.com/?autolocate=true>
However, no location marker appears in the map display.
Oh well...


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Posted by on July 2, 2008, 2:30 pm
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> Note that there are various web sites that will guess your city by IP
> address:
> <http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?Getlocation>
> <http://whatismyipaddress.com/staticpages/index.php/lookup-results>
> Not as nice as by hotspot, but useful.

For purposes of searching for a nearby business, or gaining routing
knowledge to some other point, the IP address that you have is probably
particularly unuseful. At best it will be the provider's local head end,
not your connected WAP.

If you have a cell phone that will run Google Maps with "My Location", that
can do better job of location, although it either doesn't work on my
phone, or won't bother because it can't get enough information in my remote
locale. maps.google.com/gmm My phone help-about shows myl:N/A.
That might be correct, that I am in North America, but it probably means
something else. ;-)

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