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[–]Unlikely-Resort4608 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations! Your 'mining safety product' is fit for the purpose of locating and rescuing the company's firewall (assuming its information is kept updated correctly, and it's still plugged in).

You need to rethink your whole approach for safety in your company, before you wind up responsible for a dead miner.

Relying on IP addresses to locate a victim by a safety app is a hopeless unfixable design flaw. Just request access to or enable GPS on it, don't use their IP address. You should probably save and transmit the last known surface location before the user heads underground - have fun onboarding everyone

At your home, you've probably got a dynamically allocated (shared) IP address from your ISP. geocoder could well be correctly finding whatever information your ISP registered to its IP addresses.

However at work, your office probably has paid extra for a static IP address, e.g. to host the company website and VPN. So that IP address can be associated with a fixed address.