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Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API

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Re: Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API

#51
Looks very cool and I'm going to give the free tier a try on a project. But this concerns me:

> Can I update my card details?

> Yes. Send an email to support@ipdata.co. Your request will be processed within 24hrs.

What is your process there? You're not asking people to send credit card information via email, right?

Re: Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API

#52
post #51

Looks very cool and I'm going to give the free tier a try on a project. But this concerns me: > Can I update my card details? > Yes. Send an email to support@ipdata.co. Your request will be processed within 24hrs. What is your process there? You're not asking people to send credit card information via email, right?

Definitely not! :) We'd send you a unique link to a page where you can update your details. We'd never expose your credit card information in that manner.

Re: Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API

#53
post #51

Looks very cool and I'm going to give the free tier a try on a project. But this concerns me: > Can I update my card details? > Yes. Send an email to support@ipdata.co. Your request will be processed within 24hrs. What is your process there? You're not asking people to send credit card information via email, right?

Thanks for the great feedback!

Re: Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API

#55
post #54

Very nice service. Using unicode emoji for flags would be better than pngs IMO.

That's a very intriguing idea. I'm definitely going to look into the mechanics of this. I don't know if it'd make it possible to have them in different sizes, but thanks for this! I'm definitely going to look into adding a field with this.

Re: Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API

#56
please explain your data source model. How do you integrate the RIR data, the NIR data, BGP and RTT location/estimation data to arrive at the geoid of where any given IP is. How do you handle multi=national ASN or cellular ASN using IPs across borders? (disclosure: I work in a regional internet registry)

Re: Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API

#58
post #56

please explain your data source model. How do you integrate the RIR data, the NIR data, BGP and RTT location/estimation data to arrive at the geoid of where any given IP is. How do you handle multi=national ASN or cellular ASN using IPs across borders? (disclosure: I work in a regional internet registry)

We aggregate our data from multiple existing sources. I'm going to add a Data section to our site explaining this in more detail.

Re: Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API

#60
> Get the following datapoints from any IP address;

Again :-( I just wonder if people will ever stop making assumptions about others given their IP address or hair colours and divide the Internet on these slippery grounds. The only legitimate and valid way to determine the client's location automatically is the browser or the OS geolocation API, and for the language it is the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE header. The fact I have contacted your server from an IP address assigned to a Chinese ISP neither means I'm in China nor that I speak Chinese.

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