[e2e] Mapping IP Addresses to Geographic Location

[Amr A. Awadallah]

Given your MIT connections, you should be able to approach Akamai for an 
educational license to their IP data base also known as EdgeScape db.

Out of personal experience, I can tell you it is pretty darn good. Here 
is a sample of some of the fields you can get given an IP address 
(effectively a CIDR block):

Country, State (US), City, Phone Area Code, Country, Latitude, 
Longitude, Time Zone, Network Type (Dialup/DSL/Cable)

Also for US it gives:

DMA: Designated Marketing Areas
MSA: Metropolitan Statistical Areas
PMSA: Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas

read more at:

http://www.akamai.com/en/html/services/ct_how_it_works.html

you can also try:

http://sm.jmm.com/GeoData
http://www.quova.com/images/GeoPoint_one-pager.pdf

-- Amr

Shane Cruz wrote:

> I am currently in the process of researching the possibilities of 
> generating a mapping from IP addresses to geographic locations.  I am 
> starting by analyzing various techniques and methodologies (such as 
> parsing WHOIS and traceroute requests) in order to get a good idea of the 
> accuracy that can be provided with these methods.  In order to create a 
> useful analysis, I need to obtain a sizeable data set that maps IP 
> addresses to actual location information (such as a zip code).  Does 
> anybody know of a good way to obtain this type of data?  Currently, I have 
> created a site that has a simple form for users to enter their zip code so 
> I can store the IP and zip.  For more information about this research, and 
> to help me in collecting this data, please visit:
> 
> http://www.media.mit.edu/~shanec/ipmapping.html
> 
> Thanks for your help and suggestions!
> 
> Shane
> 
> --
> Shane E. Cruz
> Research Assistant, Critical Computing Group
> MIT Media Laboratory
> 20 Ames Street
> Cambridge, MA 02139
> Email: shanec at media.mit.edu
> 
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