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PHP Based geolocation

How well does it work?

         

elklabone

6:06 pm on Apr 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I'm currently looking using a IP database to do city/state lookups...

The vendor of the database claims the following accuracy:

"The database has over 95% of accuracy in country and ISP level, 70% in region level and 65% in city level"

I understand this won't work for AOL or MSN users, but I thought maybe someone knew of a script which would give me a rough idea of where the person was located?

Thanks!

jeremy goodrich

7:19 am on May 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

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MSN users (afaik) don't have the same trouble as AOL users, as their users don't go through proxies like AOL ones.

With the ever declining market share of AOL, I would expect that any geolocation script would only get better (more accurate) over time.

elklabone

10:45 pm on May 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Does anyone know if another solution rather than IP-City databases?

--Mark