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[ncc-services-wg] IP geolocation services
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Roland Perry
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Sun Nov 1 11:10:59 CET 2009
In message <20091028160953.GN58385 at reiftel.karrenberg.net>, at 17:09:53 local time, on Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg at ripe.net> remarked: >Acually MaxMind are also providing city. You can see this in REX when using >the "Geolocation" tab. This tool provides a year of history too, so you can check >what Maxmind thinks o any block you may be about to start using. > >http://labs.ripe.net/content/rex-resource-explainer That gives an interesting view of my home IP address (within 83.67.0.0/17) - currently "London", although for four months this summer they apparently split it into sixteen different cities. None of which is closer than 100Km to where I really live... But they got the country right (which is what intellectual-property-owning users of geolocation services seem most worried about). -- Roland Perry Public Affairs Officer, RIPE NCC
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