Geographic Location

from IP address

[carlwright]

Anyone know how to roughly determine a users geographic location from their IP Address?

Carl

[carlwright]

Sorry, I should add that any suggestions using ASP/VBscript/VB preferably.

Thanks

[sugarkane]

I've no code snippets, but there's a couple of lists of which IP ranges are allocated to which country here [webmasterworld.com] - it's a starting point at least.

[MaliciousDan]

I'm interested in this subject too, if there is software out there that is available for licensing I'm definitely interested (licensing for use in other software).

[carlwright]

Thanks for that. What I have ended up doing is just querying the RIPE database for each session start, since all I really needed to know was whether the user was UK based or not, seemed to fix it without slowing everything down too much.

[ggrot]

You might want to take a look at:
[networldmap.com...]

[gieckboy]

you can also use the Map feature on NeoTrace. I think they still offer a free trial version on their site [neotrace.com...]

[netcommr]

this one [neoworx.com] may be able to help you carl, same company as above

sugarkane, thanks for that link, it will come in handy.