Posts Tagged ‘geoloc’

Super fast IP to lat/lng in Rails

In building the eye candy demo for the Graphing Social conference, I needed a quick way to geo-locate users by IP address. For Rails, GeoKit is an awesome plugin. It supports a list of providers, and overlays distance calculations, before_filter helpers, all sorts of good stuff.
It uses hostip.info to do IP to lat/lng, using [...]