On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Didde Brockman <di...@illianced.com> wrote:

> I'm not so sure. It depends on the use case, IMHO.

+1

If the OP only needs the *country* identified, GeoIP on the server is
the easiest solution.

For any finer granularity, GeoIP (or any IP-based system) is not very
reliable. (At the moment I'm in a moving vehicle south of Pismo Beach
California, and GeoIP thinks I'm in Manteca -- *way* off.)

But the client-side solutions are still a work in progress too, AFAICT  :-)

FWIW,
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