Krishna,

It's a one time cost. How are you mapping the user to a city?

You might also want to look into other services like SimpleGeo.com or client
side geocoding via Google Maps.

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On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Krishna Patel <krishnapatel...@gmail.com>wrote:

> What's the most efficient way of determining city information since, at the
> moment, there is an X-AppEngine-Country but no X-AppEngine-City?
>
> I was planning to get the GeoLite City database, which, uncompressed, is
> 30MB (not sure if it needs to be split to be under the new 30MB upload
> limit) and use a MapReduce job to load the database into entities.
>
> Computationally expensive but is that the only way to do this?
>
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