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Where does Firefox and Chrome (etc.) get Geolocation data from?

I recently started to see the geolocation APIs in my browsers. The crazy thing is the most accurate geolocation I've ever had. I live in wa, and most other geolocation services make it look like I live in a new T-shirt or Chicago. So do these browsers get this data?

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Firefox gets your location from Google's location service. This is well explained at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/ . You should also check this out: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/04/google-location-services-now-in-mozilla.html

You can also check the implementation of firefox, https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_geolocation . It uses the Gears geolocation API.

It seems obvious that Chrome uses the same API.

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Firefox and Chrome receive geolocation data from the Google geolocation service, as described above. Apple Safari receives data from Skyhook . Google data comes from two sources:

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