[gernest]

Interesting, I just checked the readme. Very similar but looks like it only works with AWS and has a lot of moving pieces.

How do you deal with location data, do you purchase maxmind db license or use their free versions.

Both maxmind and db-ip free versions of city data miss city geo id values, rendering city data useless for many cases.

With vince, I had to index embed the whole city data from geonames database to work around this.

[reincoder]

> How do you deal with location data, do you purchase maxmind db license or use their free versions.

> Both maxmind and db-ip free versions of city data miss city geo id values, rendering city data useless for many cases.

I work for IPinfo.

I think you might find my conversation with Goatcounter's dev interesting: https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter/issues/765

I pitched him to use our free country database because of MaxMind's EULA issues. MaxMind does not permit distribution of the database and requires end users to use their own token. Moreover, they actually charge thousands of dollars when you distribute the "free" database with a commercial intent.

Now, we have a free IP to Country database that we offer under a straight CC-BY-SA 4.0 license without an EULA. It is free, comes with daily updates, has full accuracy, and you can even commercially redistribute the database (via providing us an attribution).

I understand we do not have a free city database to offer, nor is our database lightweight because we have full accuracy. But you can check it out if you are interested. We do have a version with ASN (ISP) information as well.