Technologists have to act as responsible members of society, but they also have to cut themselves out of the loop of ruling the world.
--Tim Berners-Lee

Geolocation

geolocation

position on Earth. As opposed to a relative location (such as a street address) or a virtual location, such as a particular node on a network (for the Internet, the IP address).

Online geolocation utilities associate IP addresses with geolocation.

GPS allows precise geolocation coordinates to be easily determined.