Hello,<p>Is anybody else using geoip on their sites? I remember I used it a while back and it was off of a maxmind database. Is there anything else out there besides maxmind? Google isn't much help here.
The GeoLite Country database at:<p><a href="http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry" rel="nofollow">http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry</a>)<p>is just fine for countries. The Ruby gem works nicely:<p><a href="http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/140379" rel="nofollow">http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/...</a><p>... and there are other APIs as well:<p><a href="http://www.maxmind.com/app/api" rel="nofollow">http://www.maxmind.com/app/api</a><p>MaxMind is the standard.
I looked for a solid week earlier this year, and didn't find anything that was really free or open. Kind of disappointing.<p>What I needed was to be able to take an IP, and get a reasonably accurate (25 miles) lat/long out of it. If anyone knows of one that exists, please let me know...
<a href="http://geocoder.us/" rel="nofollow">http://geocoder.us/</a>. It's very accurate and you can set it up locally for speed -- it uses Perl and BerkeleyDB and the TIGER database