[Geowanking] City Detection

[Greg Elin]

Could you post the URLs to some of these City detection sites? Thanks!

Greg


On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 05:59  AM, [NetTrackers] wrote:

> Hi
>      I have been looking around the net for a few resources on City
> detection via the IP address and i've seen some sites which do offer 
> the
> service.
>
>     Tried some and they do have an above average (80%++) hit rate 
> which is
> quite commendable in my view.
>
>     I cant understand how you could actually get the city name from 
> the IP
> address. I had a look at the ripe, arin,.. databases and they go as 
> far as
> country but that wont get my city data for sure.. Nor longtitude or 
> latitude
> which i found in some of these databases.
>
>     Could someone give me a few pointers here ? I contacted Nigel W. 
> who is
> running the javainetlocator project at sf.net -- but i still dont see 
> how i
> can get any acurate results just from parsing their databases.. I 
> could push
> in some country capitals if the city is not found (which is true for 
> most
> cases !) But that wouldnt get me much accuracy.
>
>     So if anyone has ideas about how i could go ahead on this i would 
> love
> to hear them!
>
> Thanks
>     Dhruv
>
>
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