I notice that the wikipedia links are fairly accurate. The foursquare ones are obviously less accurate as they allow any old guy to add a bar and there isn't obviously the same amount of fact checking going on in the foursquare arena.
Rural Algeria is probably our default location (30,0) as that is what makes some sense when the map is zoomed out - you should only get that if we can't locate you in any way, but it also sounds like the wikipedia thing is not working. Can you post browser/ OS, etc please?
I was also in the middle of Morocco the first time I tried. Then it worked.
I think what happens is, the first time you go to geosay you have to allow the browser to give away your location; if you click on "search here" (bottom left) before having given this authorization, you land in Africa.
A simple fix could be to not show the "search here" link before the application has a real location...?
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 24.5 ms ] threadRural Algeria is probably our default location (30,0) as that is what makes some sense when the map is zoomed out - you should only get that if we can't locate you in any way, but it also sounds like the wikipedia thing is not working. Can you post browser/ OS, etc please?
I think what happens is, the first time you go to geosay you have to allow the browser to give away your location; if you click on "search here" (bottom left) before having given this authorization, you land in Africa.
A simple fix could be to not show the "search here" link before the application has a real location...?
(I think this is the bug: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/740469 although I have it in 3.6.8)
Anyhow, could you try again and see how it works?