Hey y’all,
So I’m building an app that needs to grab a user’s current location based on their IP address. I’m using the awesome geocoder gem, but the data that it uses to convert IP’s to city+state doesn’t seem robust enough. Every once in a while it just doesn’t have the data. I know that it uses the free Maxmind GeoIP data set, and I’ve been researching other databases that I could possibly purchase that have a little bit more reliable data. Does anybody else have any experience and/or input? Just want to make sure if I pony up for a better database, it is worth it.
As a backup, if we can’t grab the user’s location from their IP, we try to grab it client-side when we render the page, but I’d like to prevent this as much as possible.
Thanks in advance,
Casey