Re: Accuracy of GeoIP?

You just need to go to the maxmind website to download it.
GeoIP free data also comes from them but is slightly older and on their
website you can choose country, city and regional datasets to use.

Thanks,
Alex

On 10/27/2011 11:56 AM, Charles Cossé wrote:
> Hello, I've been using GeoIP for a few years ... but the trick is to use a
> different database than the default. Don't know where to get it, but it's
> called: GeoLiteCity.dat I'm sure it's readily available, but not with a
> default install (think).
>
> -Charles Cosse
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Kurtis Mullins
> <kurtis.mullins@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I just tried the demo and it put me about 2,500 miles away in Texas. Good
>> luck!
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Ilya <u53730@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Alan, try out our geolocation solution: Geobaza. We recently updated our
>>> Python API and make Django app.
>>>
>>> High accuracy level for US & exUSSR.
>>>
>>> Install from PyPi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/geobaza
>>> Docs here: http://geobaza.ru/docs/python/v1/
>>> Demo: http://geobaza.ru/try/
>>>
>>> Feel free to send me your feedback ;)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:38, Alan <alan.illing@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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