WHAT THE HELL? Snow Leopard Location...

[amirite]

How did Snow Leopard do this?!!? It not only got my town correct, it got the small area of my town that I'm in.

 

[r.j.s]

Have you entered your postal code anywhere?

 

[amirite]

Have you entered your postal code anywhere?

Nah

 

[r.j.s]

IP address maybe.

 

[GoCubsGo]

Your shipping zip code ... perhaps. When you registered you have to enter an address, no?

 

[amirite]

IP address maybe.

IP address wouldn't be this accurate. Most sites say my IP is in a different town anyways.

Your shipping zip code ... perhaps. When you registered you have to enter an address, no?

It says "current" location. The only possibility I can think of is Wifi, the same way the iPod Touch does it.

So awesome.

 

[GoCubsGo]

Is your current location not the location that you live?

I get what you're saying but at best it must be what you say with the location services on the Touch ... perhaps this is similar.

 

[Peace]

I think jessica is correct. Unless you were in a different location when you registered it.

 

[-Ryan-]

It says "current" location. The only possibility I can think of is Wifi, the same way the iPod Touch does it.

From http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/

Automatic time zone setup.

If you’re traveling around the world, the last thing you want to worry about is whether your computer is set to the correct time zone. Snow Leopard takes care of that for you. Using the Core Location technology, it locates known Wi-Fi hotspots to set the time zone automatically, so you’ll always know the right time no matter where you are.

Pretty intelligent.

 

[r.j.s]

allow Mac applications to identify the current latitude and longitude of the Macs on which they're running.

Since Macs don't include GPS technology like the iPhone 3G, CoreLocation will utilize a Mac's existing networking hardware to triangulate the system's location in a manner similar to the way the original iPhone was able to use the technology to emulate a true global positioning signal.

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...rd_to_include_location_multi_touch_tools.html

 

[Sky Blue]

CoreLocation in 10.6 is old news

http://sanziro.com/2009/02/corelocation-and-multi-touch-comes-to-mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard.html

 

[BaldiMac]

I would guess from your IP address. Possibly based on wireless networks in your area like the original iPhone/iPod touch.

UPDATE: Wow. It took a long time for my post to show up!

 

[stars_fan]

Mine just told me I was in riverview flordia. I live in Texas

EDIT:
After unchecking the box and rechecking 4 times it finally got my location correct.

 

[macfanboy]

lol maybe this is such old news that people forgot already o.o

 

[MacManiac76]

I'm glad there is an option to turn this off. Can't believe Apple actually gave us a choice with something. If I'm travelling somewhere and need to know a certain time, most likely it's the time back home that I need/want to know. A nice option would be to know what the time offset is to my time at home so I could know the time differential if in another time zone.

 

[Saladinos]

I'm glad there is an option to turn this off. Can't believe Apple actually gave us a choice with something. If I'm travelling somewhere and need to know a certain time, most likely it's the time back home that I need/want to know. A nice option would be to know what the time offset is to my time at home so I could know the time differential if in another time zone.

Put a clock on the dashboard.

 

[Cybbe]

You can do the same in the newest Safari* even on 10.5. Go to Google maps and hit that button between Street View and the navigation circle, and Google maps will home in on your location. It was about 30m off in locating me, not bad.

(*I'm not 100% sure if this requires Google Gears or not. I know Safari is supposed to support location services, but not sure if it will surface only in 10.6. I have Google Gears installed).

 

[amirite]

You can do the same in the newest Safari* even on 10.5. Go to Google maps and hit that button between Street View and the navigation circle, and Google maps will home in on your location. It was about 30m off in locating me, not bad.

(*I'm not 100% sure if this requires Google Gears or not. I know Safari is supposed to support location services, but not sure if it will surface only in 10.6. I have Google Gears installed).

This is because you have set your default location with Google, surely?

 

[Cybbe]

Nope. It locates you, just like the iPhone (I'm still on the 1gen).

edit: I believe the Safari support is through Google Gears, although Firefox 3.5 supports this natively if you want to test it. You can also add Google latitude to your iGoogle homepage, and it will update your location anytime you visit it.

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/07/blue-circle-comes-to-your-desktop.html