Geolocation services definition
Geolocation services means a software service used to deduce the geographical location (i.e. geolocation) of a device connected to the Internet. The most common way of obtaining a geolocation is through user's IP address. IP-based geolocation services use databases mapping IP addresses to Internet providers, cities and countries that allow them to locate a device based on its IP address with a high accuracy. Using this method, determining the country in which the device is located is 95%-99% percent accurate, while accuracy rates on naming the city from an IP address vary between 50%-80%. Geolocation information can be obtained in a number of other ways, including MAC address, RFID, Wi-Fi connection location, or GPS coordinates.
Examples of Geolocation services in a sentence
Geolocation services are critical to proper user functionality of many of Axon products.
LoCloud services were made available for developers on Virtual Machines via the MORe infrastructure, including: • The MORe repository itself, • The Enrichment services, • Geolocation services, • Historical place names service, • Vocabulary services and • The Wikimedia application.