Talk:Geotracking

message: Geolocation is described here as a means of tracking people on the internet, but geolocated is commonly used to describe photographs (or other data) whose position is known. Ojw 18:57, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Geocoded photo seems to be the dominant use (67700 vs 9380 results, according to Google).  In any case, I've added a redirect from Geolocated photo. -- Robocoder 15:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Not just website localisation?

message: ...from Geo (marketing) and Geolocation software, in addition to general clean-up.
Why?
*Obvious duplication in article, notably on "Geo marketing".
*Overlap (as reflected in duplicated external links).
*External links which border on off-topic.
*External links are starting to look like link farms.
*References that aren't referenced (e.g., Finkelstein's expert report on geolocation).
*Missing citations, such as "Critics note that geolocation software is inherently inaccurate (2002)".
*...just to name a few problems.
I'm interested in collaborating.    Any suggestions on re-organizing the content?   Obligatory disclaimer: I am a forum moderator at hostip.info, and a software developer of geolocation-related software (not linked in these articles). --  Robocoder 18:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed Merge

message: I also feel the privacy concerns from Geocoding should be moved here. --  Robocoder 18:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Strong oppose - A merge from geocoding is inappropriate, as the data privacy concerns involving mapping addresses from real world data (e.g. health records, criminal/victim records, ...) are quite different than trying to geolocate an ip address.  While my ISP has my name and real world identifying information, it is separate from my IP address.  If someone can determine my geolocation from my IP address, then fine.  But that doesn't mean they can identify me.  Only courts and law enforcement could subpoena (provided they have a legitimate reason and probable cause) my ISP to obtain my identifying information, . -Aude (talk | contribs) 19:15, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok.  I'll revert that mergeto proposal.  Thanks, Kmf164. -- Robocoder 15:02, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And Geocoding, GeoTagging and Geolocation. for review later after moving software ? Mion 06:49, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Privacy Concerns

message: Ok, 
I cleaned out the doublures to make it easier to decide.
    
* Geolocation
* GeoTagging / he process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as websites, RSS feeds or images
a link/section should be included in Geolocation software.
* Geocoding / A geocoder is a piece of software or a (web) service that helps in this process.
a link/section should be included in Geolocation software.
* Geolocation software
* Geo (marketing)
Mion 07:36, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Holy flurry of edits, Mion!  Ok...I can see where you're going with this...very nice.  :)  I'm going to remove the merge tags. -- User:Robocoder (talk | contribs) 18:34, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, still enough to restyle and copyedit to proper english i'm not native english, i'm from PAPUA . :).Mion 19:28, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New 

message: The See Also could be rewritten to normal text with an explanation. Mion 08:00, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geolocation 

message: I'd disagree with the definition given on this page. Although I'm struggling to find a good definition to cite. It seems to me there are two distinct usages:
1. as a noun meaning geographic location (i.e. a contraction) as used on this page 
or 
2. as a verb meaning the act of  determining geographic location (compare with radiolocation or echolocation).
My survey seems to indicate definition two as the more common. -- Leonstr 16:47, 19 August 2006
: noun  Wouldn't the verb be geolocate? -- Robocoder (talk | contribs) 03:57, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  yes, it would be. Geolocation is a noun. The activity is "to geolocate". -- foo  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.234.83.43 (talk) 03:06, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Concur.  I would consider IP based geolocation to be one possible nethod for performing geolocation (verb).  The longitude and latitude determined would be the geolocation (noun).  I'd argue that geolocation has nothing to do with the internet or even electronics.  Celestial navigation using a sextant and chronometer is a form of geolocation. Speed8ump 19:01, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verb or noun? 

message: There needs to be something about the accuracy of it, every time I use it it says I am in London (which I am not) so clearly it is far from full-proof.
I would do this myself but since I don't know what corsers the problems it would not be a very informative addition.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.69.109.123 (talk) 17:11, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  accuracy... 

message: I think "Identification" of a location is too strong a word, in the sense that knowing the lat/long of a photo doesn't really identify anything. I think geolocation "determines" the position of something (the position of a location - and we're into tautology here) and so the first sentence should start "GeoLocation is the determination of..."
Any thoughts before I go ahead and modify it?
188.141.34.37 (talk) 20:48, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I feel that "determination" is better, however in many cases it's more like "estimation". --Wcam (talk) 12:51, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Determination or Identification 

message: I've heard about What3Words, which seems to be a way to make hard-to-remember latitude and longitudes easy to recall. 
Is it something worth mentioning on this page? Or is it too commercial? (I have no interest in the company commercially - just thought it sounded an interesting idea.)
--peter_english (talk) 10:01, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  What3Words 

message: This article was a WP:CHIMERA. The situation is amply documented in previous discussions in the present talk page. I've taken the liberty of splitting it apart into two main concepts -- Geopositioning (verb) and Geographic location (noun) -- and two related applications, Internet geolocation and Geocodes. Please improve the disambiguation page Geolocation and avoid resurrecting the chimera. Thanks fgnievinski (talk) 15:09, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split apart