At 3:00 AM 1/10/96, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 11:15 PM 1/6/96 -0500, Michael Handler <grendel@netaxs.com> wrote:
ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1876.txt Again, I'm not too sure of the viability of this proposal. Not on effectiveness of proving true location -- it is more geared toward "visual 3-D packet tracing" -- but simply because I have _no_ fricking idea where our machines are (in terms of lat and long) to any degree of accuracy.
There are several geography servers on the net, which can tell you the lat/long for a city (more useful if your city is, say, Holmdel NJ than if it's Los Angeles.)
For what it's worth, you can use the mapping software at <http://tiger.census.gov> to find your location fairly accurately; you may need another map to locate yourself, since the streets are unlabeled. I managed to figure out that I'm currently at latitude 37.3435 degrees, longitude -121.8925 degrees. I think that's correct to within about 100 feet or so. - Tim Anyone with a GPS device, feel free to stop by; I'm in unit A2, and I've got homebrew in the fridge. Tim Dierks - Software Haruspex - tim@dierks.org If you can't lick 'em, stick 'em on with a big piece of tape. - Negativland