Wrong Geolocation From ISP so News and Interests are for somewhere else!

[Fazza]

We've recently installed the latest version of Windows 10 on to all of our computers so we've just seen the News and Interests thing on the taskbar for the first time.

 

The only thing is, it tells us it's about to stop raining in 20 minutes, in Harrow (it was Boarstall the other day) which is quite literally miles and miles away from where we are! When I take my laptop home, the geolocation shows my exact location (and I mean exact as it's a dot right on my house) yet at work it shows the south of England (where Harrow is).

 

I believe the geolocation information comes via your ISP (IP address allocation I assume) but our ISP says there's nothing they can do to change this.

 

 

We have a server pushing out time information (NTP) so I was wondering does anyone know if there is a similar thing for the Geolocation that we can set so when laptops are on site it reports the correct Geolocation for our Academies and when they go home it shows whatever location their ISP says it is?

[paulkerton]

The geolocation information comes from a couple of places. One is your ISP, the other is the wireless networks around you (the Bing and Google Maps cars are constantly recording triangulation of wifi networks for that purpose)

 

Users can set their locations manually usually. It will fall back on your IP geolocation when there aren't other options. I'd suggest users set their location if they are that interested. Not entirely sure you want to geolocate your IP otherwise.

[Fazza]

The geolocation information comes from a couple of places. One is your ISP, the other is the wireless networks around you (the Bing and Google Maps cars are constantly recording triangulation of wifi networks for that purpose)

 

Users can set their locations manually usually. It will fall back on your IP geolocation when there aren't other options. I'd suggest users set their location if they are that interested. Not entirely sure you want to geolocate your IP otherwise.

 

I've turned it off with a Group Policy for the students as the location kept on randomly coming up as Boarstall (which sounds like Borstall which is a type of young offenders institution) so didnt want them to start a rumour they were all in a prison-like environment etc!!

 

I've left it on for the 120+ staff and yes you can change it manually but it will then tell you that it's raining at work even when they are at home in a different county so was just wondering if there was a way of broadcasting a Geolocation on our network so it would at least be correct at work as it looks daft if their computer on the projector says it's currently raining when there is clearly a clear blue sky outside?!