On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:21:56PM +0100, Olaf Selke wrote: > > The free > > maxmind one is intentionally crippled, which makes me not so optimistic > > about its future. > > the free of charge MaxMind's db works perfectly to match the country. > Determining state/region, city, US postal code, and so on requires the > non crippled version.
Really? I am under the impression that they have four databases: 1) crippled (gpl) country db, 2) non-crippled (commercial) country db, 3) crippled city db, 4) non-crippled city db. We would use #1, and I'm not sure how that compares in accuracy to #2. I believe both #1 and #2 are bad at telling you whether an IP address is located in, say, Tunisia -- after all, Maxmind's customers generally get no revenue from Tunisia so they don't care whether it's accurate there. And it's an open question whether #2 is any better than #1 at answering questions about Tunisia. --Roger *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
