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- spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Place the call from SkypeOut (free) and your number shows up as "000-012-3456" .. Trace that losers!
Skype ftw! - toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Cool in theory, but not up to date. They still use the 716 area code for Rochester, NY which was changed to 585 a few years ago.
- GomezAddams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Probably just needs a newer database - the application idea itself is cool.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8*67 fixes that :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I put in the pre-fixes for my hometown and nothing came up. Pretty damned useless.
- nakedcellist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Very handy for those "Tank, I need an exit" moments..
- zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's cute. But generly what I need is a full phone number reverse lookup.
- hansmast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I work in the telecom industry and use many different DBs all the time. An ideal solution would be to first do a reverse number lookup (http://anywho.com/rl.html ) and use the resulting address. However, that wouldn't work with unlisted numbers. If the RNL doesn't bring any results, the next step would be for it to look up the number in the NPA-NXX database (http://www.nanpa.com/reports/reports_cocodes_assign.html ). Then use GMaps API to lookup "Rate Center" (city), State.
A further enhancement would be to form a lookup table that cross-references all OCNs with Company Names and then create an additional field that stores the type (i.e. landline, wireless, VoIP, etc) of company that the NXX (also referred to as the prefix; NANPA pattern: NPA-NXX-xxxx) is assigned to.
The really cool thing about this setup is that the NANPA org updates their DB on a *daily* basis and a CRON job could easily download and import these updates. - dave_colorado, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5that was me...sorry
- freerangehuman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4but dave, i didn't know colorado was in idaho.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5So next time you prank call someone, don't be surprised if they come knocking on your door.
- mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Doesn't work with Vonage. I put in my 718 and it put me suspiciously close to the giant brown Verizon exchange building in Manhattan (which is 212)
- nordberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3that is cool... was very surprised when it was right on for a little town in Manitoba, Canada. Awesome!
- pairanoyd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Awesome tool. I'll use it frequently because I get all sorts of odd phone calls.
I don't answer the phone unless I KNOW who it is. Unknowns go unanswered.
Even when I don't answer them I want to know where they are calling from.
Like why the hell would anyone in Detroit ever call me? - docillenstein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I put mine in and it puts a little dot DIRECTLY ABOVE MY APARTMENT. I know there are other people with the prefix out there - this is unsettling.
- diggm0nkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2stalkers of the world rejoice
- jjarmoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is a cool idea, but VOIP really changes the game. Put in my area code and prefix for example, and you get the area where I lived when I was initially assigned that number. Several years, and a couple moves later, and the location on the map isn't all that close to where I live anymore. I suspect I'm not alone - Cell phone prefixes also pose a similar problem. Tracking the exchange is no longer such a good indicator of the callers location.
- tracerrx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Find some way to integrate this with CallerID on my Treo.... Now that would be cool!
- elkos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wish there was an international edition of this one but i digg
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't see this as an amazing feat...this is easily done using the area codes
good implication with google maps though - hankyone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2works for Montreal too :D
- mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you live in a highly concentrated urban area like NY or LA, they could do that already with just your area code.
- Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Same here, also doesn't like my voip numbers.
But my business landline was remarkably close... almost scary - SenatorPenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I use switchboard.com, which searches public records for free and gives you a name and address. It basically is paid for by ads from companies that do more complete and powerful searches that are only used by stalkers and "private investigators".
- marijuanaman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Tried two numbers, cell phone and vonage neather worked. no digg
- absoluteczech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1great, now stalkers can find people within a 10 mile radius.
- XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Useless with number portability.
- steve693, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Very cool tool. Today I got a call from some area code that I've never heard of and used this to find it out.
Looks like someone in Idaho knows my cell number. . . - ludemunky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1According to this site, my office is in the East River.
- spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh, pleeeeease... its not difficult!
Just goto Canada411.ca (or whatever) and do reverse phone lookup. 99% of the times it'll dump the address right there. No biggie. - Gnascher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This will become more and more useless as people migrate away from POTS lines and start using VOIP and cellphones as thier primary lines.
If you used this website to figure out where I am from my phone number (cell phone or landline), you'd think I was calling from within Boston city limits. In reality, I live an hour outside the city ... it just suits me well to have a 617 area code. - 1337geek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dosnt work for most numbers i know, useless.
- Diggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1is this only for landline restrictions? I tried a few cell prefixes and got nothing....
- joshrt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doesn't have much up-to-date data. Our area code changed years ago and it's still recognizing us as the old one.
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This would be great with my Skype PeaceDialer
- 4degrees, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1tried my mom's number and got a location on the other side of the state... a good hundred or so miles away.
neat idea, but more or less useless. - JalenJade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1inaccurate, tried my phone number, says Houston, TX.. This phone number has NEVER been in Houston, TX its always been in Salt Lake City, UT.... This doesn't work well in a world where anyone can get a phone number from anywhere.
- slickfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1doesnt work for my cell number that is 4 years old...no information at all....not even a general area...no map....lame...and not like the mp3 encoder
- mikeylikesit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+199% percent of the time i just put the phone # into google, and not only do you get there address but their name if they are listed in the phone book
- etx313, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cool, I built something like this about a year ago, but I never built a front end for it. Perhaps I should :)
And my database is waaaay more up to day. I have Long/Lat for 140,000 exchanges. :) - Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In the UK at least you can just enter a phone number into an ADSL-avaliability checker and it will tell you the name of the exchange, which is an abbreviation of the name of the area. (Provided you aren't using one that gives a simplified output. BT.com/broadband's one is good.)
- superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This thing is kind of shot to hell by number portability, I would imagine...
- Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1and how do you know that's what we think?
- hotpepper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Works fine for my Canadian phone number.
My cell phone doesn't work; puts it in an area that has a new area code (has had one for nearly ten years) - Z3U5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1does not work ......
- charlief1975, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Guess the site is dead.
- firehydra2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Kinda close to my location. I wonder if this works with cell-phones..ahh darn...
- SenatorPenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm impressed. Though slightly out of date, this is the first useful google maphack that has withstood the digg effect so well.
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