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Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

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Post by devin »

pczzy wrote: post #109
oalders wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to compare the accuracy of different products, you can do so on this page: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-city-database-accuracy To get the actual product comparisons, you'll need to enter a country in the input box. For instance: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-city-database-accuracy?cou... You can try refining the distances to see how the different products compare. If you fiddle with it a bit, you…

It's accuracy but not free

I'm not sure I understand. You can use the links provided and compare those results to the results you get from the free version.

Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

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Post by ericclemmons »

Hengjie wrote: post #93

A slight tangent but good feedback to OP regardless: I use MaxMind at work but because we're on the RoR stack, we have to download and commit the massive 30MB databases into our repository in order for it to be used on Heroku. We use https://github.com/yhirose/maxminddb which seems to be the only good option available that reads the new "mmdb" format. It's a complete pain to have to commit such massive DBs for it to…

I'm in a similar boat, but just have a license key on the machine (committed) and use the maxmind updater to fetch our licensed db.

It happens once per provision, and a cron job to keep it up to date.

Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

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Post by oalders »

pczzy wrote: post #109
oalders wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to compare the accuracy of different products, you can do so on this page: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-city-database-accuracy To get the actual product comparisons, you'll need to enter a country in the input box. For instance: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-city-database-accuracy?cou... You can try refining the distances to see how the different products compare. If you fiddle with it a bit, you…

It's accuracy but not free

"GeoLite2 City" is the free version. It's one of the 3 products in the chart.

Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

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Post by [deleted] »

PythonicAlpha wrote: post #99
_delirium wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Denmark, at least, billing address is standard for non-physical goods as well. It's validated via the payment method, typically credit card or bank transfer. It's possible to cheat this, too, but harder than just making up a fake address. Afaik none of the main online sellers in DK are relying on IP address currently, in part because accuracy is not good enough, and in part because people traveling across borders…

A parallel poster posted an official link from the British Government: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-supplying-dig... There is clearly stated, that IP information is one of the proofs accepted for the country determination. So, maybe next time, please first ask before judge.

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Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

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Post by blackice »

vld wrote: post #71
heyalexej wrote: post #61

It shouldn't be free, it should be reasonably priced so you don't run out of money and can keep this thing running for years to come. There's huge demand for it - just search for geoip on Github. Some more pointers are here [0],[1]. So many projects, but most of them work with Maxmind data, which is the problem. Inconsistencies in the data they provide makes it painful to make performant fallback solutions. Performan…

ip-api guy here. > It seems none of these services is deployed across the globe Our free service has servers in USA, EU and Asia > There's a need for a blazing fast, reliable service with granular, comprehensive data, that is performing well for millions of requests across the globe, be it for mobile or web traffic. We have more than 2 billion requests per month!

I also recommend this service, been using it for awhile now and It's pretty accurate.

Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

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Post by slapresta »

lucb1e wrote: post #97
slapresta wrote: post #91

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I'm European and I'm yet to find a credit card field where I can't put my debit card number. I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.

Debit card number is not your IBAN, right? Because that's the only number on my bank card and it never works (because all forms want your "credit card" number, I thought).

Oh, no, it's not your IBAN. It's a number that looks like a credit card number, but the card it points to is actually a debit card.

Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

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Post by jpalomaki »

raquo wrote: post #66
lucb1e wrote: post #41

I use GeoIP fairly regularly. How I would set this up: - Free version: only updated once [every 6 months / a year] and non-commercial use only - Paid version: $9.99 for a year of free updates - Updates come both in diff and in full version (for the commercial version) - Use a common format, or use multiple formats. People love csv, but more serious applications probably use an existing format (I see maxmind a lot in…

Why is paying with credit cards hard for Europeans?

I can only comment for Finland, but at least here it is not so common for people to have company credit cards. If you want to buy something for the company you then either need to find out the person who has the card or use your personal credit card. Both options are bit cumbersome.

Getting the person who has the card to enter the necessary card details to a web site is not always convenient. On the other hand passing the card number, cvc etc to many people in the company has certain risks associated with it. Using personal credit card is painful, especially with monthly fees, since you need to do all the paperwork to get money from company.

Usually the credit card invoices are not enough for the bookkeeping. You need to have more detailed record about what was purchased and about the VAT included in the price. With shared company credit cards somebody then ends up chasing the actual receipts, which happen to be in somebody's inbox.

In most cases it is just so much easier to handle things with invoicing. The invoices are handled electronically and usually companies have systems in place which allow the accounting department to just pass the incoming invoice to whoever for approval.

A quite good solution this would be a virtual credit card service where somebody could assign "virtual cards" to whoever on the company and put specific monthly/yearly limits on those. It would be pretty nice to add the collection of receipts to this one as well. So the person responsible for specific virtual card, would also upload the invoices that match to the payments made.

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