What pc part finds location in google maps?

[AshesAndWool]

HI guys, I have a bit of a weird question. When I use google maps on my pc, there is no way to pinpoint my location even when I have allowed the website to use my location. I use a motherboard without built-in wifi and bluetooth. My question is what part of the pc is responsible for keeping track of your location? Thanks haha

[Levent]

MAC-IDs cannot be easily tracked as it requires being captured by a device (be it a router or a purpose built device) that the location is known of. Your ethernet, wifi and bluetooth adapters all have unique mac ids. However, in your desktop computer I assume your location is approximated by your IP address.

 

 

[BrinkGG]

16 minutes ago, AshesAndWool said:

HI guys, I have a bit of a weird question. When I use google maps on my pc, there is no way to pinpoint my location even when I have allowed the website to use my location. I use a motherboard without built-in wifi and bluetooth. My question is what part of the pc is responsible for keeping track of your location? Thanks haha

You can use tools like https://db-ip.com/ to see the routed location of any ip address. These will usually be a little off specifically because that location is based on the "last hop" of your routing table before it gets to you, AKA an ISP demark point. 

[BrinkGG]

9 minutes ago, PacketMan said:

IP address, provider (ISP), sometimes browser settings... you know

For example, imagine an IP like this XXX.YYY.ZZZ.001, Google would analyze it like: (general-use).(Europe-Country).(Country-City).(City-Center) and thus knowing more or less where you are

These are all managed and publicly reported by IANA. You can see the claimed IP addresses and who owns what though their website and whois iirc.

Here's their website: https://www.iana.org/numbers

 

Edit: Not all of this is publicly reported in the amount of detail I remember here, but specific ipv4 addresses are reserved for specific countries and can be seen there. 

[mtz_federico]

3 hours ago, BrinkGG said:

that location is based on the "last hop" of your routing table before it gets to you, AKA an ISP demark point. 

That wouldn't work because that point is not reporting its location. As BrinkGG said it is through IANA

[BrinkGG]

59 minutes ago, mtz_federico said:

That wouldn't work because that point is not reporting its location. As BrinkGG said it is through IANA

The "last hop" is what's reported.  DB-IP has confirmed that for me when I checked my IP address and landed on an ISP service center about 12 miles away. 

[mtz_federico]

23 hours ago, BrinkGG said:

The "last hop" is what's reported.  DB-IP has confirmed that for me when I checked my IP address and landed on an ISP service center about 12 miles away. 

Not necessarily. The ISP tells the regional register the coordinates of that IP's location and db-ip gets the location from IANA (or from a service that gets it from IANA).

 

The IANA whois tells you the regional register (LACNIC, APNIC, ARIN,  RIPE, or AFRINIC) and then the regional register tells you the location, owner, nameserver, etc for that ip

 

The ISP's usually set the location to a point in the city were that ip is going to be used but sometimes that is not the case, I once had an ip that has a location in a different state