please star both Issues: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=803&q=geolocation&colspec=ID%20Type%20Component%20Status%20Stars%20Summary%20Language%20Priority%20Owner%20Log
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5227&q=geolocation&colspec=ID%20Type%20Component%20Status%20Stars%20Summary%20Language%20Priority%20Owner%20Log I'd love to see this happen as well! Many apps need this! On Oct 7, 4:37 pm, "Brandon Wirtz" <drak...@digerat.com> wrote: > 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-d... > 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 > athttp://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.
