Re: Suggesting tiles by region with finer granularity than country

On 26/04/15 03:43, Ed Lee wrote:
> Using the geolocation API would provide much more detailed location
> information (lat/long). Whether we should use the API and if Firefox
> needs to ask the user's permission from a chrome context is a whole
> separate conversation that I don't think we need to get into now.
> (Although using the API would address some issues like VPN IP
> addresses confusing our servers.)

One way of dealing with that might be to call the API but not send the
location data to our servers. Instead, you could add an "uncertain
location" flag to the request where the GeoIP data didn't match the
geolocation data, so the server knew it might not want to use geotargetting.

Gerv