You bring up a good point, but distributing this as a database is a convenient interchange format. It means I can quickly start playing around with it to see ho

You bring up a good point, but distributing this as a database is a convenient interchange format. It means I can quickly start playing around with it to see how accurate and precise it is. I downloaded it, imported it into a test database, and was querying it in under 2 minutes. It took me longer than that just to figure out what sort of license I would need to use Maxmind.