How To Detect Visitors’ Location From IP

There are wonderful free tools out there. And some great databases. GeoLite is one of them, courtesy of Maxmind.

GeoLite includes some great open source databases for detecting country or city information from IP addresses. Theses databases are free –also includes a paid version. Free database is not for commercial redistribution, but for testing purposes this database creates wonderful solutions.

DB comes in two formats, binary and as a CSV formatted version. There are also some tutorials and scripts included with the DB. Even though it’s free, Maxmind updates the database every month, and the accuracy is 99.5%, which is really good.

Maxmind : http://www.maxmind.com/

Free databases :
GeoLite City: http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity
GeoLite Country: http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry