Paul Mison wrote:
>
> On 18/06/2001 at 09:02 +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
>
> >> (I suppose Simon Cozens had him beat while he was in Japan, but was
> >> he part of London.pm then? I think he is now.)
> >
> >Last I heard, we had at least one subscriber currently living in
> >Australia.
> >
> >Leon, how about a london.pm world map :)
>
> Combine it with the (sadly mythical) IP2LL and it'd be easy.
There are modules out there for doing IP2LL
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~olson/IPtoLL.html/ and
http://www.caida.org/tools/utilities/netgeo/
But it just isn't all guaranteed to be accurate for various reasons.
Getting, say 70% accuracy isn't taht hard, the next 20% is very hard,
the next 10% after that is nigh on impossible.
other links
http://www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/Project/VR/ip2ll/faq.htm
http://www.twoshortplanks.com/simon/ip2ll/
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~laszewsk/java/doc1/api/org.globus.applications.mapper.GeographicalLocator.html
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