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We want to add IP address to City/Country to our PHP application.
Anyone knows which is the best database around? We have a budget for a commercial license, we just need the best.
I have heard good things about MaxWind, but actually for my own Adderss they didn't know the city. IP2Location did know, and they are a lot cheaper.
I will welcome any advice on this subject...
Ron.
If you want to develop your own solution a few companies offer geo ip DB's.
Maxmind for example has a GPL version available although accuracy of their free version would be in the like of 60% on a 25 miles radius (from what I can remember ...check their site).
I think the GeoTrends is a plug-in or something for WebTrends, no?
The offer by MaxWind and IP2Location is just the bare DB which you can take and use yourself. Like I said, we have the budget to buy a commercial service. It's just that I'm looking for the 'best' one - if anyone has any experience.
So far it looks as if MaxWind is the leader ;-)
Ron.
Most commercial stats packages will offer geoip. While the opacity surrounds the real accuracy of their propriatary DB, the plus is being able to cross segment with other metrics from scratch.
On our end we ended up with webtrends for some sites and a custom development on which we plugin the Maxmind DB for others.
Not sure if this is of any help, but if we had to redo it: we would buy a script which would allow customization and work it out from there.
Takes some time to develop but you get exactly what is important to you.
Melissa is another company I have heard of, but know little about them.
[edited by: Receptional at 12:39 pm (utc) on June 15, 2007]
Ron.
