Simon Wistow
Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:40:18 -0700
Paul Mison wrote: > > On 18/06/2001 at 09:02 +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > >> (I suppose Simon Cozens had him beat while he was in Japan, but was > >> he part of London.pm then? I think he is now.) > > > >Last I heard, we had at least one subscriber currently living in > >Australia. > > > >Leon, how about a london.pm world map :) > > Combine it with the (sadly mythical) IP2LL and it'd be easy. There are modules out there for doing IP2LL http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~olson/IPtoLL.html/ and http://www.caida.org/tools/utilities/netgeo/ But it just isn't all guaranteed to be accurate for various reasons. Getting, say 70% accuracy isn't taht hard, the next 20% is very hard, the next 10% after that is nigh on impossible. other links http://www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/Project/VR/ip2ll/faq.htm http://www.twoshortplanks.com/simon/ip2ll/ http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~laszewsk/java/doc1/api/org.globus.applications.mapper.GeographicalLocator.html -- simon wistow wireless systems coder only second toughest