YAyardstick·Aug 12, 2026
Open source works just fine for this - take a look at geoacumen-country
https://github.com/geoacumen/geoacumen-country
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3 sourcesI've been trying to build open source MaxMind alternatives for a bit. (Mostly so I could distribute them with my open source projects)
IP to country is fairly easy and I open sourced all the scripts and the database itself [0].
But IP to city is much harder, I'm not actually sure it's viable for anyone to do that without relying on some other 3rd party service.
I'd be very interested to hear if anyone knows how to pull that off in an open sourceable manner.
[0] https://github.com/geoacumen/geoacumen-country
In I made a simple geolocation serviceIt likely uses the data published by RiRs. I wrote something similar that discusses where it sources the data and how to generate it. https://github.com/geoacumen/geoacumen-country
I've been meaning to make automatic Github releases for it.
In I made a simple geolocation service