Re: OT: Database of IP locations?
Re: OT: Database of IP locations?
- Subject: Re: OT: Database of IP locations?
- From: Dan Saul <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:37:40 -0600
Thank you very much for your assistance :) .
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 09:56:06 +0100, Freek Dijkstra <email@hidden> wrote:
> Dan Saul wrote:
>
> > I am trying to do a map of where people are when they are located to
> > my server. Doing a Google searched led me to some products that may
> > have been of help if they were not expensive.
> >
> > So my question is, does anyone have or know of a way to get the
> > location of users?
>
> There are a number of databases available which do exactly this thing,
> both commercially and freely available.
>
> However, all these database are maintained by third parties, and not by
> ARIN/RIPE/APNIC, who do maintain the authorative WHOIS database, which
> unfortunately does only contain the netblock owners, not the
> geographical location where the netblock is used.
>
> This means that most databases are incorrect, in particular when a
> netblock is reassigned. For example, www.ip-to-location.com greets me by
> telling me I'm located in "United States, Missouri, Saint Louis", while
> this morning I was rather sure I am located in the Netherlands, Utrecht
> (a completely different continent; my IP is 145.99.200.84, see for
> yourself). So even the commercial providers of these services are
> sometimes far off.
>
> That said, the information is often a good educated guess. Just remember
> it is a guess. It highly depends on what you want to do with the
> information For example, doing visitor analysis of your visitors
> afterward, or if you want to give a visitor a personalized greeting
> based on their geographic location when they visit your website. If it
> is the latter, you may as well use the language information that the
> browser is sending rather then the geographic location.
>
> You can find these type of databases or services for example by using
> Google ("IP addresses" "geographic location") or by finding services,
> like providers of site statistics or by downloading one of those
> programs which do a graphical traceroute (showing a map of the earth
> with lines), and see where they get there data from.
>
> It will depend on your specific needs what is best for you: do you need
> the information off-line, on-line, real-time, do you need IPv4 only or
> also IPv6, is price or accuracy more important, etc.
>
> Kind regards,
> Freek Dijkstra
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