Comments on: Google Maps geo-location by IP Flex example

By: IP Location Finder

IP Location Finder — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:43:23 +0000

Theres an IP location finder tool at http://viewdns.info/iplocation/ that is pretty good. Free too!

By: Hen

Hen — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:48:32 +0000

Great job!

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By: Kiran

Kiran — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:15:02 +0000

Thanks Jason for the information . My website still not live . I am planing it for next month . It is kind of community website .

I downloaded the PHP files and downloaded geolite database and tried it . But still location is showing wrong . Are you using full version of it?

I don’t want to give the IP address here for security reasons . If you have any junk email id , I can send you the IP address.

Regards
Kiran

By: Jason Langdon

Jason Langdon — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:00:19 +0000

@Kiran - what’s the link to your site?

That PHP file can be downloaded from the MaxMind website here - http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/php/

By: Kiran

Kiran — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:57:11 +0000

Wonderful , I don’t know how you are getting this exact data ? I know you said maxmind . I tried maxmind for one IP ( Location India, City :- Hyderabad) it gave me wrong result . In fact I tried most of the IP geolocater and every one is giving the wrong City name.But when I tried with you search It gave me the exact right result . I tried several more IP address with your site and it gave the correct result .
Can we use you URL
http://blog.wrench.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/geoip/sample_city.php
for our website :)

Regards
Kiran

By: Jason Langdon

Jason Langdon — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:30:43 +0000

Hi John, you’d have to take this up with Maxmind (http://www.maxmind.com/app/city#api) who created the database.

By: jfdonohoe

jfdonohoe — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:42:27 +0000

This is great. The map showed my actual location within yards!

Question for you about accuracy. Do you know of any resources that shows the reliability of current geolocation IP detection experiences.

I would like to be able to assure my clients that accurately identifying an end-users geolocation by IP address to the metro, or even state, level is above 90% accurate.

It would be great if there was some sort of public accessible statistics I could direct them to.

I know the service/database used has a lot to do with the final accuracy results but a 99.9% accurate database still is only one piece of the puzzle for a consistently reliable end-user experience.

Thanks!

-john

By: Adobe Flex Tutorial

Adobe Flex Tutorial — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:08:53 +0000

Hey,
Here is a tutorial to show how to install and use the MaxMind Database with PHP scripts examples. And it also shows how to display it on a map (Yahoo! Map) (french):
http://www.flex-tutorial.fr/2009/02/01/flex-yahoo-maps-api-geo-localisation-par-ip-dun-visiteur-exemple/