Archive for the ‘Geolocation’ Category

Using IP Locator Services

December 21st, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Geolocation, IP Address Lookup

IP locator services, as the term implies, are services that help identify the location of a given IP address. These services are mainly utilized to locate the geographical location of an IP address, to keep a tab on the various activities associated with a given IP address, to survey traffic flow and also last but not the least, for the purposes of security on the World Wide Web. These services have found a special indicative response with the emerging arena of cyber crime and cyber laws. Advertising is another field which makes use of these services extensively to identify and locate potential clients, customers and demand markets.

IP Locator services are offered for free by a lot of websites like myiptest.com, geobytes.com, ip2location.com, ipligence.com, find-ip-adress.org, tracemyip.org and iplocationtools.com. All you have to do is enter an IP address to find its location. Most of these websites offer a specific and limited amount of location services and the rest can be accessed after the payment of certain fees and charges, which vary with the website as well as with the specificity of the service required. You can find out who owns an e mail address as well as their geographical location. Specificity includes country and city as well as latitude and longitude. There are also map based locator services which use graphical localization to locate the identity of an IP address.

For owners of websites and blogs, this tool is useful to find out where their internet visitors are coming from, along with their country, location, ISP, domain name as well as zip code. The names, area codes and even their connection speed can be easily found out. These services are therefore also called the ‘Big Brother’ of the virtual internet space, as they can keep an eye on each and every move made in the virtual world by each and every registered netizens in the world. Anonymous proxy network detections are also possible using the high end software that employs IP Locators.

If you, for example, want to locate an IP address, there are multiple websites which will guide you in the right direction. In this example, we chose ip2location.com. All you have to do is visit the website, enter the IP address and click on ‘find location’. Ip2locator allows you to locate up to 20 IP addresses as a part of its free demo. Areas where geo location can be extensively and successfully applied are user communities, distributed computing environments, Web logs, identifying network robustness, chat programs, security and urban mapping. Dial up connections, cable modems and mobile internet are some areas that are often more difficult to locate since their IP addresses are dynamic and may keep changing.

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GeoRSS Modules

June 10th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Geolocation

GeoRSS is rising technology for encoding location as part of an Web feed to create feed channels to flow content across the web. GeoRSS feeds with location information will deliver content such as news articles, audio blogs, video blogs and text blog entries. Programs such as aggregators and web browsers render these web feeds with RSS which is the most known Web feed and syndication format.

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In GeoRSS, location content consists of geographical points, lines, and polygons of interest and related feature descriptions. GeoRSS feeds are designed to be consumed by geographic software such as location map generators.

At this juncture, the GeoRSS collaboration has accomplished work on two primary encodings which are known as GeoRSS Geography Markup Language and GeoRSS Simple. GeoRSS GML is a formal Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) GML Application Profile, and supports many features than GeoRSS Simple and it will remarkably coordinate reference systems other than WGS84 latitude/longitude. This module can be used to extend both RSS 1.0 and 2.0, as well as Atom and other latest standard for feeds.

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Geolocation Through IP Address

May 25th, 2009 by admin | 2 Comments | Filed in Geolocation

The geographic locations based on Internet IP are becoming more popular in our daily life. It brings together user communities without the need for going to GPS (Global Positioning System) receivers and any other complex technology.

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Internet is becoming the collection of all the informative resources, which are meant to appeal large viewers & readers around the globe. The geographically localized information becoming integral part of our lifestyle which offers the ability to the users to gather round information related to specific geographic location. The local positioning enables you to minimize the search times and enhances the visibility of local establishments. In the same way, you can incorporate with user communities and chat-rooms targeting specific locations and you can easily get the information about the local times, weather conditions and news events of the exact location.

Geolocation by IP address is the system of determining user’s geographic latitude by implication through longitude, city, region and nation. It also enable you to compare the user’s public Internet IP address with known locations of other electronically neighboring servers and routers. The benefits of IP geolocation may sound complex, but a simple example may help you to understand the possibilities. Consider a traveling businessman currently on the road to New York, After checking into his hotel he start using his laptop through the wifi, he opens his chat program as well as a Web browser. His friends and family can see from his chat profile that he is currently near 3333 California Stunstarred, San Francisco, CA. Accordingly they can determine his local time and weather condition. By using his Web browser, the businessman can do a localized search to find nearby restaurants, pub and theaters.

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