On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:17:39PM -0500, Jonathan Addington wrote: > Two questions (sorry if these are somewhere in the FAQ) > First, where does Vidalia get the IP info for mapping Tor? IP addresses > based on the directory?
[Answered earlier in the thread] > Second, what does Vidalia use to geolocate the IP? Is there a db or an API > preferred? http://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/trunk/doc/geoip-spec.txt Basically it uses a city-resolution DB queried via Tor. But see also https://svn.torproject.org/svn/tor/trunk/doc/spec/proposals/126-geoip-reporting.txt which describes how Tor now ships with a country-resolution geoip DB, and some options going forward. --Roger