hostip.info is a (free!) site that geolocates IP addresses to city, and in many cases to Google-map-able latitude and longitude points as well.
Total sweetness.
The database of IP addresses and their mappings is available for (free!) download, and they’ve got an API that allows for nice and easy calls (for example: http://www.hostip.info/api/get.html?ip=216.164.95.194&position=true). Very slick, very very fast, and very easy to use.
As one idea of what can be done with this: I used Joe Chung’s jVisitors plugin to grab and geolocate the IP addresses of people coming in to check out the site. It becomes more useful once there have been more than 20 or so visitors, but some early data is already available.
Next up: instead of just grabbing the city based on IP, I’d like to grab the lat and long as well. And then have a link to create a Google map with the last 10 visitors pinned. Not that it’s useful, more like it’s a good way to learn how to use some of these fancy-schmanzy tools.
August 16th, 2005 at 8:42 am
Started grabbing the latitude and longitude also. Hopefully the google map thing will happen sometime this week, or maybe over this coming weekend.
August 16th, 2005 at 10:58 am
hey ian -
thanks for the link yesterday. not so sure the url tracker is working. tracked my IP address to georgia. I made the correction though.
here is that other mp3 site I was telling you about: http://regnyouth.blogspot.com/
August 16th, 2005 at 12:29 pm
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August 18th, 2005 at 5:12 pm
Michael Green has beaten you to the punch – kind of creepy how you’re both thinking the same thing.
August 18th, 2005 at 9:50 pm
Someday I wasnt to be as cool as Michael Green. That would be amazing. If I’m thinking the same thing that he is, well, more power to me, right?