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I'd like to get your impressions on any ip geolocation (as in IP to location) service services you may have employed?
I'm looking for something free or cheap, which shouldn't be unrealistic because I need to make a very small volume of requests.
Anything...
Started by carrier on
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We started/ip_database.php
Since you prefer free or cheap IP geolocation service, I would recommend.
We've worked with three different providers of such services in the past 4 years.
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I am not asking what geolocation service to use or how you use them.
I am asking, how the do these companies know so well where every IP address is?? Is there some breach of privacy being violated?
I looked at the wikipedia page, and all they had to say...
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On the other hand hosting providers and data centers.
Country just by looking at the first 2 groups.
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Google Maps can now pinpoint my location with street precision with the help of Firefox.
I understand this is a new feature of HTML 5 compatible browsers and that the location is fetched by using some sort of feature of the connected WiFi network (I hope...
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The techniques alone cannot figure out ....
The geolocation per-se For this API to be useful, requires that the underlying host and web browser
a) allow or by way of the network they are hooked-up to) to read or estimate the geolocation.
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I'm not looking for a service that does this. I'm just curious as to how geolocation works.
Started by weicool on
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Geolocation software takes full advantage of these lists for more accuracy and utilize other....
As I understand it, IP subnets are assigned to the providers upstream of your service providers to, and publish updated lists frequently.
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We've got a website visited by users mainly in the USA and UK. The site will be run on servers in both these locations.
We would like to use a DNS service to direct users to the nearest server, but can't find any. Does anyone have an recommendations for...
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I have used BIND with ACL to provide geolocation service.
Http://www.webhostingtalk.com, round bobin, site monitoring...
Many providers are mentioned.
Here is a forum topic on it.
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Are there any easy ways to override the default behaviors of the geolocation api and just hard code your current location?
I think this would be useful for testing and for privacy reasons (providing fake location data)
I thought there was an add on for...
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In production you can just set customGeoLocation to navigator.geolocation and in tests use a mock implementation... .
Hmmm, you can't mock navigator.geolocation directly - perhaps you can refactor your code that uses it to use another object - say customGeoLocation .
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Is there a good physical address to GeoLocation conversion database in the UK? I am trying to use this to build a globrix style search box http://www.globrix.com/ for a web application. Any pointers will be nice. I have been searching for hours. I have...
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The Google Maps API provides a geocoder webservice that you can actually....
Alternatively, you can buy the "PAF" (Postcode Address File) from the Royal Mail, but it is expensive .
Http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk should be able to help with this.
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The iPhone supports geolocation in mobile Safari via the following call:
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition( function(pos){ var lat = pos.coords.latitude; var long = pos.coords.longitude; }, function(){ /* Handler if location could not be found ...
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Google Gears provides a geolocation API with a syntax fairly.
Although I think it's a great practice to standardize on the (draft, by the way) W3C Geolocation is substantially different, but still easy .
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I am looking for a free service (providing a web service or a database that gets updated regularly) that will allow me to retrieve the Geolocations (Long/Lat) for Country/Prov/City.
Yahoo & Google's API's are unacceptable as they limit the total amount...
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Have you looked at GeoNames ?
I'm a fan of Geolite , they have both city and country databases... .
Have a look at TIGER line data
EDIT: In my experience it's not as accurate as NAVTEQ data (i think google and yahoo use them) but its what you get for free .
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This is probably a very silly question. I am trying to do a geolocation to find a users address based on their ip address using the api provided by http://www.hostip.info/use.html . I am using this in conjuction with jquery with the following code:
$....
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You can't make calls....
If hostip offered a JSONP API , that would be usable, but I didn't see any mention of one on their site .
Cross-domain limitations are likely to prevent you from reading the result data .
I don't think the call to them is successful.
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