Is the idea that we would create a database that is open source and would replace the need to use a paid service like the one you listed? [1]
1. https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-databases On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 6:28 AM Antoine Drabble <antoine.drab...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As you may have seen, I have created a few issues regarding the IpLoc > module on Github. They have been tagged with the *iploc* label. > > For anyone who is not familiar with IP to location services: the goal is to > parse the public files from Network Information Centres. These files > contain metadata about the IP address ranges that they manage. There is one > Network Information Centre per continent. Then, using these parsed files, > we can query a Geographical database (such as Geonames) to locate the IP > addresses. Finally we create a database that contains a map of IP address > ranges and their Latitude/Longitude coordinates. IP location databases are > usually costly [1]. They have many purposes, one of which is locating > customers that connect to a website. > > I will try to work on these issues in the following weeks. > > Best regards, > > Antoine Drabble > > [1] https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-databases > -- Sent from A Mobile Device
