Talk:Geolocation software

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It strikes me the links shown below are much more useful than the (inaccurate) link to DMOZ on the main page (it actually goes to the general IP page, not a geolocation page)... Any chance of adding these in their place.

-Ben

I'd love to know if anyone has seen any open source software that can do this..

- Dave

GeoIP is an open source geolocation library. It works with a free database that looks up the country of an IP address.

IP2Location has a free version of IP2Location geolocation library and database for IPv6.

ipligence.com Free Geolocation database project to locate IP addresses

Oughtn't these questions be subsumed in a general discussion on privacy on the Internet rather than being commingled with what purports to be a technical discussion? -- ekzept

[edit] Mac address

yes, for the protocol your statement is right, the mac addess is only needed to the next hop, however, mac address number, hdd unique number, external storage device numbers, motherboard unique numbers are also collected for validation like "genuine" and other reasons, the fact that these numbers can be retreaved by specific software makes them fit for geolocation software. Mion 11:58, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree with your opinnion, the article fails to explain clearly what different geolocation methods are out there and what works best for each one. Edcross 8 December 2006

Feel free to add some -:) Mion 12:33, 8 December 2006 (UTC)