HI Nuwan,

There are two lightweight databases we can use as I found from [1] and [2]
and those are open source projects.

[1] - https://freegeoip.net/
[2] -
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/88/how-can-i-determine-the-location-of-a-visitor-to-my-website

Thanks
Tharindu

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Nirmal Fernando <nir...@wso2.com> wrote:

> @Seshika any thoughts?
>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Nuwan Dias <nuw...@wso2.com> wrote:
>
>> I have doubts on using an HTTP API to get these details because,
>>
>> 1. It will be costly in terms of performance to call these APIs (and they
>> might not be free as well).
>> 2. We have no control nor guarantee on their availability (they can
>> shutdown whenever they want).
>> 3. They will only work if the stats visualizing agent (store/publisher)
>> or DAS has access to internet.
>>
>> Can we look for a light-weight open-source database which has region
>> information based on IP ranges?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> NuwanD.
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Tharindu Dharmarathna <
>> tharin...@wso2.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> We are going to implement $Subject on latest release . I want to know is
>>> there any best way to extract Geographical location from IP . And here are
>>> my findings of the ways of do.
>>>
>>> [1] - http://www.geoplugin.com
>>> Thi will retrive all the data according to the location as json
>>>
>>> [2] - http://www.telize.com/
>>>
>>> This is another REST API which can used to extract location.
>>>
>>> *Thanks*
>>> *Tharindu Dharmarathna*
>>> Associate Software Engineer
>>> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com
>>> lean.enterprise.middleware
>>>
>>> mobile: *+94779109091 <%2B94779109091>*
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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