Posted by -Lost on 06/07/07 17:19

R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:
> 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>

Many thanks Mr. Anbiah, but I was hoping to gather information for
perusal as opposed to use pre-existing services to query said information.

Oh and by the way, your signature is broken! Put a "space" after the
"--" to fix it. :)

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