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epi0Bauqu on Dec 7, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask YC: Review my Website, Being Served from My La...

Why not just use geo-location to pull up a map based on where the user is right now?

andrewljohnson on Dec 7, 2008 [–]

We'll do that eventually... it's just another feature filed in our bug tracker. It's not clear how valuable that is though, particularly on a US level.

The first goal for personal geo-location will be to show foreign visitors a world map.

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