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Ask YC: open geoip databases?

21 points by zkinion 19y ago

Hello, Is anybody else using geoip on their sites? I remember I used it a while back and it was off of a maxmind database. Is there anything else out there besides maxmind? Google isn't much help here.

alex_c 19y ago
I use the free Maxmind country database.
subwindow 19y ago
I looked for a solid week earlier this year, and didn't find anything that was really free or open. Kind of disappointing. What I needed was to be able to take an IP, and get a reasonably accurate (25 miles) lat/long out of it. If anyone knows of one that exists, please let me know...
- extantproject 19y ago
  The MaxMind GeoIP City Database includes latitude and longitude. You could buy their "Web Service" at $20 per 50,000 queries...
  - zkinion 19y ago
    I guess if you were really clever you could cache it too, if you had a site with a ton of traffic.
    - bluelu 19y ago
      Just hope that you get you get returning visitors then. And even then, address mappings change over time.
extantproject 19y ago
The GeoLite Country database at: http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry) is just fine for countries. The Ruby gem works nicely: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/140379 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/... ... and there are other APIs as well: http://www.maxmind.com/app/api http://www.maxmind.com/app/api MaxMind is the standard.
apgwoz 19y ago
http://www.hostip.info http://www.hostip.info works great for me on www.newshoured.com
xavios 19y ago
http://geocoder.us/ http://geocoder.us/. It's very accurate and you can set it up locally for speed -- it uses Perl and BerkeleyDB and the TIGER database