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Interactive Map Issue

4 years ago · Quote · #1
Ned63

One of my online friends - berniel - lives in the UK. On the interactive map, he's shown as living somewhere in Southern India!

Weird!!
4 years ago · Quote · #2
1red5a

Is this something about chess?
4 years ago · Quote · #3
Ned63

If it was something to do with chess, it would be in one of the chess forums smart arse!
4 years ago · Quote · #4
mxdplay4

I noticed these things. I actually live in wolverhampton, but appear to live in leeds. The only time I checked out an opponent was someone else near me who wasnt even on the map. How do chess.com know where people come from anyway?
4 years ago · Quote · #5
Ned63

I'm guessing it's tied up with whatever might be in your profile regarding location. Still, Wolves <-> Leeds is quite a small error when compared with my friend!!
4 years ago · Quote · #6
erik

it first looks at your location in your profile. if it doesn't find one, it uses your IP address :) and these things are very hard to have be 100% accurate.
4 years ago · Quote · #7
Ned63

Oh for sure, but 3,000 miles is a big miss. Still, it doesn't seem to bother Berniel and it doesn't bother me. I was just wondering
4 years ago · Quote · #8
erik

ah... the last scenario is if they have no location, and no known IP address, then they get put at latitude/logintude of 0, which is off the coast of africa... :)

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