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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
