[appengine-java] Re: geocoding for IP addresses

2009-08-19 Thread Toby
Hello Juha, Thank you for your reply. In fact maxmind offers a complete database and Java API to get even the latititude and longitute: http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity it is very accurate. The thing is that I can not make it work on GAE because it depends on some java.net.* Classes that a

[appengine-java] Re: geocoding for IP addresses

2009-08-19 Thread Juha Palomäki
One possibility might be to use the downloadable Maxmind database, upload it to GAE datastore and use that to convert the IP-address to a city. Then use some other service to get the latitude/longitude for the city. http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html http://code.google.com/apis/