Fair enough. I'm a data hoarder :-) and clients have been buying information for 18+ years. I have never don the GEO-Ip as a service because the cost could never be competitive with Maxmind. At somepoint max mind might offer a directly compatible/supported solution with AppEngine. If I were a Developer Evangelist at Google this would be the kind of thing I would be working to make happen (hint, hint, nudge, nudge)
From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krishna Patel Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 2:50 AM To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [google-appengine] X-AppEngine-City Jeff, I didn't even consider using their Java api. The idea of keeping the data in memory on App Engine is absurd. I'm surprised you thought that might work. I'm following an approach similar to Ikai's in his blog post: http://ikaisays.com/2010/08/11/using-the-app-engine-mapper-for-bulk-data-imp ort/ As you can see, he parses the Maxmind file into City and Zip entities so that he can do lookups by Key. Unfortunately I don't think this works to lookup a City from an IP address - because you have to scan a series of IP ranges in the underlying data (the data is not actually very complex). Brandon, "what's in it for me" is a good question to ask - on both sides of the transaction. In my case, it's a commercial app so why would I rely on your service? Who are you and how do I know you will be around in 6 months or 6 years? I don't mind paying for a service but I would prefer to pay for a service with some weight behind it. Juha, jsapi lookups are limited by daily quotas and questionable for a commercial app without paying an alleged $10,000 licensing fee for Google Maps Premium. - Krishna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
