hi all,
 
the problem we have is with the google api regarding geolocation.
 
to restrict delivery of certain content according to commercial rights 
agreements it is necessary to resolve the location of visitors to our live tv 
(country is the only information needed), and as our development team is in 
sevilla (spain) initial testing went well.
 
the problem is that Sevilla seems to be one of the few locations correctly 
detected by the api, and as soon as we started testing in other regions of 
spain (and the UK) were finding that most users simply dont resolve a location.
 
one of the decisions to use this service was based on the great geolocation 
provided by google analytics (only two visitors from "not set" in the last 
month) and basically we expected the api to work just as well.  obviously the 
service provided as part of google analytics is different and i would like to 
know if this could be a paid service apart from the free api.
 
we are looking at other services but have a considerable problem in that the 
web server is currently behind some very secure proxies and therefore we have 
no access to client data serverside.  the location resolution must work 
entirely at the geolocation providers web service.
 
the current test is at 
http://www.tvcanariados.com/television/testdirecto.aspx?canal=tv
 
running this once loaded:
 
    <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
        $(document).ready(function() {
            if (google.loader.ClientLocation != null) {
                var info = "Your Location Is: \n\n" +
                           "City: " + google.loader.ClientLocation.address.city 
+ "\n" +
                           "Country: " + 
google.loader.ClientLocation.address.country + " (" + 
google.loader.ClientLocation.address.country_code + ")" + "\n" +
                           "Region: " + 
google.loader.ClientLocation.address.region;
                alert(info);
            } else {
                alert("Your Location was not detected by Google");
            }
        });
    </script>  
 
my questions are simply:
is there anything were missing from this api?
is there a paid service that provides the same resolution as google analytics?
 
 
regards,
 
James Collings
RTVC.es
 
 

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