One possibility might be to use the downloadable Maxmind database,
upload it to GAE datastore and use that to convert the IP-address to a
city.
Then use some other service to get the latitude/longitude for the
city.

http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html

br, Juha

On Aug 19, 1:57 am, Toby <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for a way to get the latitude/longitude for the IP
> address of the user.
> So far I was using maxmindhttp://www.maxmind.com/app/lookup_city
>
> but I can not make it work.  It depends on java.net stuff that does
> not exist in GAE and a 30MB file database.
>
> I imagine that maybe google offers a similar REST service or
> something. I looked around but I can not find anything useful with
> Java on GAE.
>
> Can someone help me?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Tobias
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