Posted by R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah on 06/06/07 16:25

On Jun 6, 9:24 am, -Lost <maventheextrawo...@techie.com> wrote:
> IP2Location has limited databases: 0.0.0.0 to 99.255.255.255, which if I
> read correctly excludes:
>
> 100.255.255.255 through 255.255.255.255
>
> MindMax is awesome! However, it only offers Country and City lookups.
>
> The problem with both of these however is a proprietary binary format
> (DAT), which excludes anyone from making specific changes, i.e. corrections.
>
> Anyone know of any open-source geo-location LIBs?
>
> How about any detailed:
<snip>

Finding out the country from is easy with whois; AFAIK, this is
what all the IP DBs do. But, to findout the exact city, commercial DBs
seem to employ people to filter the data. There are also City to
longitude/latitude free DB's available; so it would be relatively easy
to get that info. FWIW:
1. Steps to get IP to country info
<news:abc4d8b8.0404092117.37ac8e4a@posting.google.com>
<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.php/msg/992732449830364d>
2. whois in php
<news:ccm8hq$144@odah37.prod.google.com>
<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.php/msg/cfcace0ece554ed6>

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