Google ajax api has city level ip lookup.
On Dec 6, 5:13 am, Ubaldo Huerta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has tackled the problem of guessing country, city
> for a given IP. Of all the server side solutions that I'm aware of,
> maxmind, seems to have the best data. I know that there are REST, RPC,
> etc based solutions, but given GAE restrictions on duration of
> requests, I wouldn't go that route due to latency, time outs, etc
>
> So, the issue is how to move maxmind data to GAE. Note that geoLite
> city CSV is pretty large (~ 100 MB) (btw, it will make a nice dent in
> the allowed quota )
>
> http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity
>
> Anyhow, I wonder what would be the best strategy to upload the data:
> bulk uploader v.s. approcket. For app rocket, which I just saw in the
> blog post, I'll need to load the data to a SQL database
>
> Another solution is to do IP to location on the client side, but I
> don't know of any services that are reliable and fast.
>
> Ideas?
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