[90326] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Geo location to IP mapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Corlett)
Tue May 16 07:19:09 2006
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From: abuse@cabal.org.uk (Peter Corlett)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:17:10 +0000 (UTC)
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Ashe Canvar <acanvar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can any of you please recommend some IP-to-geo mapping database / web
> service ?
It's mostly dead reckoning with a thick layer of marketing on top to make it
look credible.
The 90% solution is to take the freely-available GeoIP country database and
use that. Beyond that, you're paying lots of money for information that has
a finer granularity but is arguably no more accurate.
> I would like to get resolution down to city if possible.
Good luck.
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