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Geographic location by IP Address?

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:40 am
by Todd_Z
Anyone know of any free ways that I can get geographic location based on IP address? The City & Country is all i want.

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:59 am
by wwwapu
Do you mean something like http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm ?
or http://www.handyarchive.com/free/ip-location/

If you do, answer is "No I don't" :wink:

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:02 pm
by anjanesh

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:53 pm
by timvw
maxmind.com has geoip.... and a city database..

i was once bored (darn, i seem to be bored quite often ... :p) so i wrote something to try it out... :)

demo: http://timvw.madoka.be/ip2location/
source: http://timvw.madoka.be/programming/php/ip2location.txt

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:55 pm
by John Cartwright
timvw wrote:maxmind.com has geoip.... and a city database..

i was once bored (darn, i seem to be bored quite often ... :p) so i wrote something to try it out... :)

demo: http://timvw.madoka.be/ip2location/
source: http://timvw.madoka.be/programming/php/ip2location.txt
According to your scipt I live in Africa?

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:03 pm
by feyd
Phenom wrote:According to your scipt I live in Africa?
neat! I live in Herndon, US.. wherever that is. :)

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:03 pm
by timvw
my database is a little outdated.... and i don't feel like buying an upgrade for this gimmick only :)

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:50 pm
by Trenchant
It had my location right. Until I turned on my internet anonymous program :P