Comment by Fileformat

2 years ago

Shameless self-promotion:

I built a page to compare IP geolocation providers: https://resolve.rs/ip/geolocation.html

I'll work on adding ipapi.is shortly!

2 comments

Fileformat

XCSme 2 years ago

I am using the free version of https://db-ip.com, seems pretty good.

reincoder 2 years ago

Fantastic stuff. I work for IPinfo.io and I actually came across your site about a month ago. I was planning to contact to you about mentioning the free IP databases [0].

However, when I saw that a few API didn't return any response, I thought maybe the site was not maintained.

[0] https://ipinfo.io/products/free-ip-database

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Tangent

I find the geographic coordinate values returning up to 15 decimal places is absurd for an IP geolocation response. IP geolocation is never that precise and, this level of "precision" is not warranted and frankly distracting. Like at best it should be 4 decimal places.

relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2170/