On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Owen Watson wrote: > Is there any way to get GeoIP to work with Analog? >
Not at the moment, but geotargeting is a subject which has come up a lot recently, and I'm about to send a message to the analog-announce mailing list asking for people's views on it. Feel free to have a discussion here too! Actually, let me kick the discussion off now. As far as I can tell, there are some free databases which mostly use "whois" lookups and the like, so their accuracy on country-level lookups is at best 90% (which is pretty poor, actually); and there are some commercial databases which claim to do better at the country level, and also attempt state and city level resolution, but they cost hundreds or thousands of dollars. Do people who know about this subject think this is an accurate characterisation? What (type of, or specific) solution or solutions would people like to see in analog? -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." (Edsger W. Dijkstra) +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
