[google-appengine] Re: Location tracking with AppEngine

2009-02-02 Thread nickmilon
Sorry haven't read this entry sooner. As a matter of fact I developed a geolocation through ip service last May as a test for then just released App Engine. I was interested to test Big table's performance at the time. So I created a Big Table model and loaded it with all ip blocks collected by

[google-appengine] Re: Location tracking with AppEngine

2009-02-02 Thread nickmilon
Sorry haven't read this entry sooner. As a matter of fact I developed a geolocation through ip service last May as a test for then just released App Engine. I was interested to test Big table's performance at the time. So I created a Big Table model and loaded it with all ip blocks collected by

[google-appengine] Re: Location tracking with AppEngine

2009-02-02 Thread nickmilon
Sorry haven't read this entry sooner. As a matter of fact I developed a geolocation through ip service last May as a test for then just released App Engine. I was interested to test Big table's performance at the time. So I created a Big Table model and loaded it with all ip blocks collected by

[google-appengine] Re: Location tracking with AppEngine

2009-02-01 Thread niklasr
tips for guessing theirlocationif they don't have Gears installed? (Keep in mind, I'm looking at the neighborhood/metro level). geoip is one established way. display client location works with geoip (with a gmap (such as classifiedsmarket.appspot.com)) brCountry Code: script

[google-appengine] Re: Location tracking with AppEngine

2009-02-01 Thread mb
There are instances when doing it using JavaScript isn't nearly as good as doing it on the server. To do it on the server, you can import a database like MaxMind, but it's a bit of a pain. Or you can vote for the issue at http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=803 and hope

[google-appengine] Re: Location tracking with AppEngine

2009-01-30 Thread Marzia Niccolai
Hi, I've been working a sample that does something similar to this (note to self: publish soon :). In the meantime, I can definitely suggest using Google Gear's geolocator: http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_geolocation.html#geolocation and the Google Maps geolocation library: