That is, even without it being a "default location", sending people to the GPS coordinates obtained from an IP mapping database is nonsense.
Ignoring the default location issue.
Imagine I'm a police officer and I don't know that MaxMind returns a default location. I then take an IP pop it into my tool and it gives me a lat/long. I take that transpose it on a map and see that to my surprise there's a single home or address at that location (these folks live on a 600 acre ranch). If I'm an investigator and all I have to work with is an IP, even knowing that MaxMind isn't perfect wouldn't it still be worth it to take a trip out to that point to investigate?
BTW Just for giggles this is the map if you use the returned coordinates
Ignoring the default location issue.
Imagine I'm a police officer and I don't know that MaxMind returns a default location. I then take an IP pop it into my tool and it gives me a lat/long. I take that transpose it on a map and see that to my surprise there's a single home or address at that location (these folks live on a 600 acre ranch). If I'm an investigator and all I have to work with is an IP, even knowing that MaxMind isn't perfect wouldn't it still be worth it to take a trip out to that point to investigate?
BTW Just for giggles this is the map if you use the returned coordinates
https://www.google.com/maps/place/38°00'00.0"N+97°00'00.0"W/...