I think this is an amazing idea. On the upside it could allow people to micro-target services.<p>On the down-side it will allow people to micro-target without peoples permission.<p>Like anything this is a tool, that can either be used for good or evil. With great power comes great responsibility.<p>I think the service can become more accurate overtime as it establishes more <i>known</i> locations. Each <i>known</i> location could be used to determine the n+1.
Geolocation using Wi-Fi BSSID/MAC addresses is probably more accurate and reliable.<p>WiGLE is a crowd-sourced database of the GPS positions of over 33M Wi-Fi BSSID/MAC addresses from around the world.<p><a href="http://wigle.net/gps/gps/Map/onlinemap2/" rel="nofollow">http://wigle.net/gps/gps/Map/onlinemap2/</a>
oh god, so this means that because I'm hosting a VPS for some italian, they think that prgmr.com is in italy? it sounds like an even worse idea than looking at the address in the whois.