Makers! Keen to understand what kind of geolocation technologies you have used?
Deep Sherchan
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Looking to discuss the use of IP geolocation and other location technologies.
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Mr Ethar Alali@ethar_alali
IP geolocation has been a staple of mine for almost 25 years. Though I have also used:
* Bluetooth beacons for very short distances (specifically geofencing)
* LoRaWAN with fixed antenna
* GPS
IP services are numerous, but the data is publicly available. You can build your own DB of you want, it but there is now a docker image of it through Maxmind.
Also, probably worth mentioning, though not fine grained enough, don't forget that CloudFlare also provides a location service, to return the country code in the header, when it comes from the reverse proxy.
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Thanks @ethar_alali. that is interesting. For IP, have you been using any specific service or do you have your own.