On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Alan <alan.ill...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone have experience with the accuracy of GeoIP? I'm getting > locations that are wildly off... > > When I plug in the IP from http://whatismyipaddress.com/ I get > somewhere in the middle of Kansas when I'm in Chicago. > > On the other hand using a Google IP address (mentioned in the example > below) correctly gives the lat/long of Mountain View > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/geoip/ > > I'm referencing data donwloaded from MaxMind: > http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/ > As instructed by the link above. > > I didn't run into any installation problems, so I assume there's a > data discrepancy somewhere; does anyone know of any known issues? > > Thanks >
GeoIP is wildly inaccurate, particularly the free version. Using it to predict reliably any more than the correct country is risky, and even that fails a lot. Many GeoIP databases put me in Germany because my IP address belongs to DeutscheTelecom and is leased to my (UK) ISP. Cheers Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
