ip-geolocation

I am aware that there are many services which provide geolocation tools for working out where users are visiting from. The website I'm working on is an e-commerce site which runs in multi-territories. When a visitor hits the website it should work out where they are from and show the relevant currency/language for the user. In the past we have used maxmind but I'm wondering if there are better solutions out there. I'm calling out to developers with experience in this area to share their knowledge and expertise on what's available and what the pro's and con's are of various solutions.

I'm administering a web platform and want to get some statistical data, where my users come from. I can store the remote IP and I know that there are localization services that map an IP to a geolocation. How is this mapping done? Are there fixed tables, which IP address was given to which region? Must I request the mapping in the moment of the access or can I request it days/months/years later? In other words: Is the mapping from IP to location fixed or does it change over time? The mapping from IP to location change over time. I have read that the databases change 5% each month, even though

I want to bulk lookup ip details at ipinfo.io Here is my code. $ cat ips.txt | xargs -I% curl http://ipinfo.io/%/region The file "ips.txt" contains three ip addresses each on a separate line: (1) 8.8.8.8 (2) 8.8.4.4 (3) 1.2.3.4 This resolves only the last ip address. It should give (1) California (2) Colorado (3) Washington. I get the below: curl: (3) Illegal characters found in URL curl: (3) Illegal characters found in URL Washington If I write ips.txt with only one ip address (for example 8.8.8.8) I get good results. I think there is something wrong with either my text file or the way I am

In my application I want to track the client/user location to store in database. I'm using this code to get the user IP Address string VisitorsIPAddr = string.Empty; if (HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"] != null) { VisitorsIPAddr = HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"].ToString(); } else if (HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress.Length != 0) { VisitorsIPAddr = HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress; } ipAddress = VisitorsIPAddr; Using above code I'm getting the IP address. now the next step to get the timezone, Region,

Say you visit Groupon from the entry point Agoura Hills, CA - how would Groupon go about referencing that town to the nearest city that has deals (like Los Angeles) and choosing that as the closest? Is it grabbing lat/long from the location and calculating the distance from all available cities, choosing the shortest? If so, where can you get lat/long data like that for each city or an open api to use for this purpose? Groupon seems to use limelightnetworks as their CDN provider and most CDNs due to their distributed nature having some kind of geo-location database which they can map the

First of all thanks to all .... I read that i can use the free IP geolocation webservice to get Country name from an Ip address. But how i get the response to my site , Actually this is what i look , In my site there is a need of displaying the country name from Ip address. Can uou please tell in detail... How can i display the country Name from that site .. http://www.maxmind.com/app/php You need to install the php module and then use the following code to get the country name: $country_name = apache_note("GEOIP_COUNTRY_NAME"); geoip_country_code_by_name can give you the country for an