Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Accuracy of GeoIP?

Does anyone have experience with the accuracy of GeoIP? I'm getting
locations that are wildly off...

When I plug in the IP from http://whatismyipaddress.com/ I get
somewhere in the middle of Kansas when I'm in Chicago.

On the other hand using a Google IP address (mentioned in the example
below) correctly gives the lat/long of Mountain View

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/geoip/

I'm referencing data donwloaded from MaxMind:
http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/
As instructed by the link above.

I didn't run into any installation problems, so I assume there's a
data discrepancy somewhere; does anyone know of any known issues?

Thanks

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