For the last month or so, I've noticed that my device's precise location is frequently, if not always, incorrect on websites like google maps. This extends to google search results as well - at the moment, on Firefox, google thinks I'm in Vietnam (I'm actually in the US) and I'm getting search results in Vietnamese. I've tried different browsers and different websites like bing maps, and the results are the same. Here's what I know: - I am not running a VPN - My location is correct on my smartphone and in google maps on a different machine, both of which are on the same wifi network and logged in to my google account - My IP location from sites like ipinfo.io is correct - Google maps shows the correct area when first opening, before selecting "use precise location" - Changing the value geo.provider.network.url from https://www.googleapis.com/geolocation/v1/geolocate?key=%GOOGLE_LOCATION_SERVICE_API_KEY% to https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/geolocate?key=%MOZILLA_API_KEY% as described here caused the location to change. Originally, google maps in Firefox would show me in Germany. After changing that value, it started to show me in Vietnam. Changing it back to the googleapis provider did not cause the location to change back to Germany from Vietnam. This also changed the results in Chromium which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, especially considering my next point - Chromium now shows the correct location after I completely cleared all browsing data. It has only been a few minutes since discovering this and it is still working, both logged in to google and not logged in. I have not tried clearing my history and data in Firefox yet, and the location is still wrong there - even in a private browser. Has anyone else had an issue like this? I suppose all I need to do right now is clear my data in Firefox, but I'm not convinced that there isn't a more interesting underlying issue. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

I just discovered the (great) Viking application for editing and viewing GPS tracks. I am struggling to find a way to scroll the map while I am editing?adding points to a track or a route, like in the following case: I know I can click on the "four arrow" symbol and then move the map, but this will exit the track editing mode --- I have to select "extend track" to continue each time. I am sure there should be a better method, but I am unable to find it. Is there a way to scroll the map while in track editing mode?

At the command line, how do I get the current location that geoclue2 would report? There's no man page or bin/ executable in my Arch package. redshift (which uses geoclue2) is reporting my location as: > 7.98 98.37 But google maps gives me: > 9.749160, 99.975484 Is there any way to configure what sources geoclue2 uses to get better accuracy? Most google geoclue2 searches bring up redshift which isn't too helpful :(

Thanks in advance for any ideas you present. My current project has me trying to loop a file containing a list of 1000's of IP addresses through geoiplookup and piping it to sed to delete all lines that do not match criteria. The list is just a list of ip addresses:

1.2.3.4
5.6.7.8
9.10.11.12
.
.
.

I then run geoiplookup ip.ad.dre.ss as root, and get:

[root@system ipset]# geoiplookup 4.2.2.2
GeoIP Country Edition: US, United States

if the IP is within the US. My goal is to delete all lines from the file, if their IP is not in the US. What I tried is not working:

#!/bin/bash

for ip in $(cat /tmp/iplist.txt); do
     geoiplookup $ip | sed '/GeoIP Country Edition: US, United States/!d'
done

Any suggestions? Recommendations of another approach would be greatly appreciated. @terdon Sorry I haven't updated sooner, I have been busy. Adding either to this question or comment messes up formatting of text. Sorry newbie to Stack...let me figure this out. OK, update. after changing up and running @terdon first code:

#!/bin/bash

while read ip; do
  if ! geoiplookup "$ip" | grep -q ': US, United States$'; then
    sed -i "/^$ip$/d" /tmp/iplist.txt
  fi
done < /tmp/iplist.txt

it runs without error but non-US ip address still are in list. I had been using the last example with the declare -a badLines

scripts#geoiplookup 172.168.155.63
GeoIP Country Edition: GB, United Kingdom

scripts#grep 172.168.155.63 /tmp/iplist.txt
172.168.155.63

Once I figure out how to get copy and paste to work right into the question here I will update. @Ed Morton Both examples produce same error at the "done" line, line 7 in one and line 9 in the other.

./filter_ips.sh: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `done'
./filter_ips.sh: line 7: `   done < "${@:--}"'

@Miri B They run through but there are still non-US ip addresses in the list.

Using CentOS 8. I would like to force dnf to only use mirrors in the vicinity of a certain location without having to manually maintain a list of desirable mirrors. So I looked to modify the repo config files in /etc/yum.repo.d/. Take /etc/yum.repo.d/CentOS-Linux-BaseOS.repo for example, this is its default state:

[baseos]
name=CentOS Linux $releasever - BaseOS
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=BaseOS&infra=$infra 
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-centosofficial

I would like to know if there is a parameter when querying mirrorlist.centos.org I can specify to filter by location, something like this:

mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?country=us&other-params-ommitted 

(country= I tried, didn't do anything) I haven't been able to find any relevant documentation on the site's API.

I have noticed that redshift does not work anymore on my machine with Linux Mint 21.3. I am sure that about half a year ago it was still working (that could be under Linux Mint 21.2 though). Trying to debug this, I found out that the problem must be with geoclue:

$ redshift
Trying location provider `geoclue2'...
Using provider `geoclue2'.
Could not connect to wayland display, exiting.
Failed to start adjustment method wayland.
Trying next method...
Using method `randr'.
Waiting for initial location to become available...
^Cpoll: Interrupted system call
Unable to get location from provider.

(I do not know why it talks about wayland, it is not a wayland session.) Executing /usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/where-am-i from geoclue-2-demo package just times out after a while without any output or error. (Sometimes it did produce some error message about something missing IIRC, but I could not reproduce it reliably.) Here is the status of geoclue.service:

$ systemctl status geoclue.service | cat
● geoclue.service - Location Lookup Service
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/geoclue.service; static)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2024-06-15 13:53:51 CEST; 7min ago
   Main PID: 2434 (geoclue)
      Tasks: 4 (limit: 18810)
     Memory: 19.1M
        CPU: 424ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/geoclue.service
             └─2434 /usr/libexec/geoclue

Jun 15 13:53:51 Alexey-InfinityBook-Mint systemd: Started Location Lookup Service.
Jun 15 13:54:12 Alexey-InfinityBook-Mint geoclue: Failed to query location: Not Found
Jun 15 13:54:17 Alexey-InfinityBook-Mint geoclue: Failed to query location: Not Found
[...]

Googling "geoclue.service Failed to query location Not Found" did not return anything relevant on the top of the search results. I have the same problem (at least it looks the same) under LMDE 6 (Linux Mint Debian Edition). Any help will be appreciated.

I am in Mexico. This fails:

% curl -s -H 'accept: application/dns-json' 'https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query?name=www.bispebjerghospital.dk&type=A ' | jq .
{
  "Status": 2,
  "TC": false,
  "RD": true,
  "RA": true,
  "AD": false,
  "CD": false,
  "Question": [
    {
      "name": "www.bispebjerghospital.dk",
      "type": 1
    }
  ],
  "Comment": [
    "EDE(22): No Reachable Authority (time limit exceeded)"
  ]
}

but this succeeds: dig @8.8.8.8 www.bispebjerghospital.dk Why? What requirements does Cloudflare require of a domain to resolve its record? The map shown at [whatsmydns](https://whatsmydns.net/#A/www.bispebjerghospital.dk) shows red X's for some locations. EDIT: Marcus in the comments seems to have no issue with the Cloudflare. So since I suspect this is an anycast issue, here are the IP addresses I see for Cloudflare:

% nslookup cloudflare-dns.com
Server:		10.2.9.68
Address:	10.2.9.68#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	cloudflare-dns.com
Address: 104.16.249.249
Name:	cloudflare-dns.com
Address: 104.16.248.249
Name:	cloudflare-dns.com
Address: 2606:4700::6810:f9f9
Name:	cloudflare-dns.com
Address: 2606:4700::6810:f8f9

EDIT2: NS records as requested:

% dig www.bispebjerghospital.dk NS 
;; communications error to 10.2.9.68#53: timed out

; > DiG 9.18.24-1-Debian > www.bispebjerghospital.dk NS
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER> DiG 9.18.24-1-Debian > @8.8.8.8 www.bispebjerghospital.dk NS
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40469
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.bispebjerghospital.dk.	IN	NS

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
bispebjerghospital.dk.	900	IN	SOA	ns3.regionh.dk. webmasteradmin.regionh.dk. 2008030648 10800 3600 2592000 900

;; Query time: 256 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr 02 12:58:38 CST 2024
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 117

% dig +short cloudflare-dns.com NS
ns1.cloudflare-dns.com.
ns2.cloudflare-dns.com.
ns3.cloudflare-dns.com.

EDIT3: NextDNS succeeds:

% curl -s -H 'accept: application/dns-json' 'https://dns.nextdns.io/dns-query?name=www.bispebjerghospital.dk&type=A ' | jq .
{
  "Status": 0,
  "TC": false,
  "RD": true,
  "RA": true,
  "AD": false,
  "CD": false,
  "Question": [
    {
      "name": "www.bispebjerghospital.dk.",
      "type": 1
    }
  ],
  "Answer": [
    {
      "name": "www.bispebjerghospital.dk.",
      "type": 1,
      "TTL": 3600,
      "data": "128.0.75.219"
    }
  ]
}

EDIT4: I can't query from ns3.region.dk directly:

% dig @ns3.regionh.dk www.bispebjerghospital.dk
;; communications error to 128.0.75.226#53: timed out

EDIT5: Seems like that previous command should have worked, since it works on [dnsexit.com](https://dnsexit.com/it-tools/network-tools) :

How can we automatically set the system default timezone in Linux using the Internet? As I see it, NTP servers can update only time, but not timezone. Is there any server that can change the timezone?

I want to spoof my location on my android device without jailbreaking. I saw this post about desktop software that can spoof mobile device via usb. Can you please help me find a free alternative that can be installed on a debain laptop?

In startup applications in Debian (as possibly other debian and ubuntu based distros.) there is a library called Geoclue Demo agent, the actual library with path is /usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent which is part of geoclue-2.0 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/wikis/home . The only question I know which has been asked so far is to remove the app/service. See the question from unix.stackexchange.com . I would find it more interesting if I could understand what it shows and how it shows it. The manpage written about man geoclue isn't addressed for ordinary users. Can somebody help me with that ? I am looking on lines something simple as curl wttr.in/$location and you get output of weather of that location. Something which is interactive and it probably is, just need to figure out how.

if GPS-module disconnected, or if GPS antenna gets moved into building, I wan't to know the last available location. I tried to log location every 10 or so seconds with systemd-timers; However, exactly when log-file is updating every 10 sec, there is an instance cat -ing log-file returns empty. This needs to be robust as possible, since inexperienced user will be operating the system. Are there anything tools within GPSD tools that provide this?

I'm currently working on a little project; in a kml file called weatherdata.kml, I would like to extract the sea level pressure for each ` element. I'm trying to parse the information about the sea level pressure and put it into a file called report.csv`; and print the sea level pressure on a new line each time. I think this would work with awk and so far I've tried this: awk -F '[>,]' '/minSeaLevelPres/ {print $2}' report.csv But when I run this command in shell, I get this: 1002 #ex 19.2 -24.1 NINE 10 AL LO 20 23 37 1002 2020082350 0000 UTC JAN 07

On my KDE Neon laptop, I would like to have several profiles which encompass the settings for: - network (Wifi vs LAN) - display (including external displays via xrandr or display manager) - audio outputs (internal vs. external audio device) Is there a standard way to manage "profiles" like the ones above without homebrewing a custom bash script? If so, is it also possible to automatically switch between the profiles based on (for example) the availability of certain WiFi networks?

How to use GeoLite2 database (mmdb) in my firewalld to block all countries except for example DE?

Using Debian 8 Jessie I don't like geoclue. I want to remove it Tried to do: apt-get remove geoclue* I got: The following packages will be REMOVED: empathy geoclue-2.0 gnome gnome-clocks gnome-core gnome-maps task-gnome-desktop Is there a way to remove it without uninstalling the whole gnome ? I don't have any window manager besides gnome I don't want to brick my install. Thanks

How can I have e.g. all highway speed cameras displayed on the map, i.e. what is the URL syntax to search OpenStreetMap for certain **tags**?

I am using an ARM device on which Debian is installed. A GPS chip is installed on the machine and I use it in my program. That being said, it seems extremely, long, or sometimes impossible to even get a fix. My device does not have a clock. Depending on the available sources, I may set the system data from somewhere else (IE if the user connected the device to the WIFI) I don't really know how timezones operate. My country has only one and it changes according to the season. My first question would be: - In Debian, is the system time relevant to get a GPS fix? - If so, what type of date must I set? My country uses GMT but it seems weird for a satellite to even care about that type of concept, I assume they use UTC - is this the case? Right now I'm off by one hour... I think. (09:05 UTC while my country's clock seems to be 10:05)

On my desktop computer (arch) and laptop (debian) I use gnome-maps. On both devices I use a VPN. (iptables firewall does not allow non-VPN traffic, no DNS leaks.) On my desktop, the "current location" is the city where the VPN is, as expected. On my laptop however, gnome-maps is able to get my actual location (VERY precisely, almost down to the foot). How is that possible? What techniques are used? The laptop does not have GPS.

I want to use the name of the country where I am now in a bash script. I can get the external IP using next command: curl ifconfig.me But how can I get my country name?

I am trying to get Redshift to work again. And it seems to fail because of geoclue2. Here's the weird thing. Until earlier today, it worked just fine, and geoclue was not updated since December (2.5.2). Whatever I do, I keep getting the following > geoclue: Failed to query location: Forbidden When I run systemctl status geoclue.service. **Nothing** works. Not downgrading redshift, or geoclue2, or even running as sudo the redshift process. Absolutely nothing. It all ends up in the same result: forbidden. (Yes, I have added redshift to the geoclue.conf file at /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf.) --- I am using Arch Linux with Openbox and Xinitrc.