SiteUser - UserLocations, best way to fill in the other info

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7/14/2011 10:26:11 AM
Warner
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SiteUser - UserLocations, best way to fill in the other info

I would like to fill out the fields for the User Location,

hostname,longitude,latitude,iSP,continent,country,region,city,timeZone.

I know there are services out there where you can pay for the data. 

I was hoping some one has had experience with and had some good "where to start" pointers for:

1: where the best place to get the data is, for the best price ( free ain't bad )

2: best way to fill/backfill the IP data, i dont need real time... i could just add a service button that would go out and update the info.

Any thoughts and suggestions would be awesome !

Thanks Guys~

Warner

 

7/14/2011 12:02:54 PM
Joe Audette
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Re: SiteUser - UserLocations, best way to fill in the other info

When I built that table I had it in mind to try and populate it using data from ipligence, they have a free level of data I think as well as some paid data.

At some point I'm thinking of building some javascript and a service url to capture and update the location using the newer browser built in location features. 

My original motivation was the desire to show a map of user locations, but I can already do that now with my In Site Analytics Pro product with google analytics data like on our community page.

Best,

Joe

7/14/2011 12:48:58 PM
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Re: SiteUser - UserLocations, best way to fill in the other info

I played around a little bit this morning...

and got some free country/city/Latitude&Longitude from a rest api at

http://www.hostip.info/use.html

would need to do a little string manip/parsing... as the return data looks like:

"Country: UNITED STATES (US)\nCity: Flemington, NJ\n\nLatitude: 40.5091\nLongitude: -74.8603\nIP: ###.###.###.###\n"

not sure i will pull this into my project as of yet, still mucking around.

the pay sites def have some better database of info.

http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_demo_ip

 

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