This was interesting,  I was sitting on my sofa tonight just playing around with Google Maps on iPod Touch.    I clicked the locate me button (which had never worked before) and it zoomed right in to my exact location.

Slightly freaked out I pieced together what had happened and why ‘locate me’ was suddenly working with smart bombing precision.   Looking around I couldn’t see anyone pointing a laser targeting device at my house, so I cam up with the following.

If you remember about a month ago I posted about add geo-encoding information to your website here.

We’ll it all makes sense,   Google had indexed my blog found the geo-encode information in the meta tags of my blog/website.

The final bit of the jigsaw,  because my public IP address is the address of my router and traffic I generate from my home network (i,e from the iPod) appears to come from my base public ip.   This public IP is also the address of my blog.

So…   Google could easily relate my IP to my location.      I hope I’ve got the trail correct, but its well worth doing what I did and putting those meta tags on any web-page you host.    

I would give you a screenshot but still no simple way to-do so off an iPod/iPhone.  Come on SOTI guys