On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote: > On 07/05/2013 04:44 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: >> >> ????? Gr33k <ni...@superhost.gr> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Is there a way to extract out of some environmental variable the Geo >>> location of the user being the city the user visits out website from? >>> >>> Perhaps by utilizing his originated ip address? >> >> >> It is possible to look up the geographic region associated with a block of >> IP addresses. That does not necessarily bear any resemblence to the >> actual >> location of the user. It tells you the location of the Internet provider >> that registered the IP addresses. >> > > To be more specific, the last time I checked, my IP address is registered to > a location over 1000 miles away. And it's not a dedicated IP address, so it > could very well be used tomorrow by someone 200 nmiles the other side of the > registered location. > > Further, I sometimes use other ISP's with different addresses, even when I > don't leave the house. And once I leave, anything's possible.
That said, though, geolocation is usually accurate enough to report which country you're in. For basic statistical analysis, that's generally sufficient. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
