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I started hacking away yesterday at making an alternative database that seems to be more accurate, but it's still in the works. Who here would be interested in a free alternative, including and excluding cities, updated on a daily basis, and if so, which format's would you like to see?
I would be interested. Although a service like ip-api.com is not expensive ($8 per month or so if commercial use).
The structure of the data seems very simple: ip address range plus a location, I guess. So maybe just dump as a simple csv text file ? Always easy to process.
You have to make sure the legal side is covered: how do you get your changes ?
A free service like locationkit (seen here a few days ago IIRC) looks OK, and I'm reasonably sure it's supported by revenues for other services from the parent company. However, even that feels like it might get shut down if it becomes too big a burden.
Something with a good understandable license that I can pay a reasonable amount ($5-$20/year, for most low-mid volume use cases) would be great, as long as I can really use it for commercial purposes. I had some high hopes for Yahoo services a few years back, but they seemed determined to plague everything with confusing or commercial-hostile licensing.