Re: question about ip addresses

Is it possible to get longitude/latitude or anything like that? I've seen sites that do that. That would make pretty simple to nail down the location to a city/state. -Jake "John Nichel" <jnichel@by-tor.com> wrote in message news:3EA6C66B.2020201@by-tor.com... > Free of charge.... > > ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/split/ripe.db.inetnum.gz > ftp://ftp.arin.net/other/dump/aup_dump.txt.gz > ftp://ftp.apnic.net/public/apnic/stats/apnic/ > ftp://ftp.lacnic.net/pub/stats/lacnic/ > > I could be wrong, but I think things like proxies are taken into > consideration. This data won't give you the state, but it will give you > the country to where the IP address is assigned. > > > Chester Bullock wrote: > > > >> Do you have to buy these lists? If not, where are you obtaining > >> them? In actuality, it still seems relative. Take AOL for example. > >> They allocate all sorts of dynamic IP's, but ultimately they would all > >> resolve to VA since that is where they are located... > >> > >> At 11:30 AM 4/23/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >> > >>> There are four (maybe more) companies out there who basically control > >>> all the IP's in the world, and they release their database (in text > >>> format) to the public, so those sites you're speaking of are probably > >>> going on that information. I'm currently building this in php for my > >>> company. > >>> > >>> Jake Malone wrote: > >>> > >>>> (sorry, i originally posted this in the db group)... > >>>> i've seen sites that can tell you the geographical location of > >>>> virtually any > >>>> given ip address. > >>>> i was wondering, is there some formula for figuring this out? maybe > >>>> something that could be implemented with php? > >>>> -jake > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >>> To unsubscribe, visit: > >>> http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >>> > >> > >> Chester Bullock, chester@tenxible.com > >> Tenxible Solutions - Tangible, Flexible > >> Website Hosting, Design and Marketing > >> http://www.tenxible.com > >> <http://www.tenxible.com/> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> Do you really own your domain name? Find out > >> with our free domain name research report. > >> http://www.tenxible.com > >> <http://www.tenxible.com/> > >> > > > > > >