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Brian Armstrong
Brian Armstrong

Reputation: 19873

Geocoding an IP Address in Rails

I have GeoKit setup and in general I'm really happy with it.

But I recently tried Geocoding IP Addresses with it and its default results (provided by hostip.info it looks like) don't seem very accurate or complete. Has anyone else had bad results from this?

Is there a better way to GeoCode IPs in Rails?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 947

Answers (1)

Christoph Lupprich
Christoph Lupprich

Reputation: 1190

I've developed GeoMint (a pepper for Shaun Inman's Mint) a few years ago. Back then I've also used hostip.info, which worked fine for me. However, users came up with solutions like maxmind.com (GeoAPI http://www.maxmind.com/app/api). However, what you need to understand (and what some of my users back then didn't) - geotargeting is quite complex, needs a lot of updates and getting a perfect dataset for free will quite likely not work. Although I suspect that country detection is really solid now.

Upvotes: 2

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