The IP address is more than enough to get accurate country data - the maxmind DB (https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-services-and-databases) is quite accurate but the perl variants that I have used a more than good enough.
IP::Country::Fast; Geography::Countries; Again, in my humble opinion, its not important to be 100% accurate for this purpose. The purpose is to get knowledge about the userbase that can be used to set direction for the development of the SME server. The country is actually quite irrelevant except if new languages ought to be added. I agree that we should not map down to city - it's irrelevant. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Liquorice Sent: 26. januar 2015 01:23 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [discussion] Install statistics for SME Server [SMOLT] On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 22:26:38 +0100, stephane de Labrusse wrote: >> A list of servers giving the number of active installations and >> version per country should be pretty safe but a map you can zoom in >> on and find an individual servers location, even very loosely, I >> really don't like at all. > > we have some examples > > here our map (not up to date) > > http://batchgeo.com/map/e875e05b857ef93f1ad61ea1e3324fc2 > > here the neth map > > http://www.nethserver.org/phone-home/widget_map.html The first appears to be far too accurate and if based on IP address could be way of the mark. The second I much prefer I'd be happy with that sort of thing down to county(*) level but that relies on having some accurate means of getting the location to that level of accuracy. Short of directly asking the customer for country and county I'm not aware of an automatic system that has that level of accuracy. (*) The large administrative areas that contries are divided up into. -- Cheers Dave. _______________________________________________ Discussion about project organisation and overall direction To unsubscribe, e-mail [email protected] Searchable archive at http://lists.contribs.org/mailman/public/discussion/ _______________________________________________ Discussion about project organisation and overall direction To unsubscribe, e-mail [email protected] Searchable archive at http://lists.contribs.org/mailman/public/discussion/
