GeoIP support for other geo databases?

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:05:49PM -0500, dbanks wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am using the GeoIP module with the MaxMind database.   The module
> works great and does exactly what I need, but I find the quality of the
> data from MaxMind to be lacking.  For example, even the paid MaxMind
> database does not have ZIP codes for many of the IPs here in the US. 
> For my application, a valid ZIP code is very desirable.
> 
> Has anyone looked at extending the GeoIP module to support other geo
> database providers like Digital Element?   Only one database is required
> at a time, obviously, but it would be desirable to have a choice of
> database providers.  I don't mind digging into the GeoIP code, but
> thought I would ask first.

You may import any database you want with geo module.  Geoip 
module is specifically to work with MaxMind's GeoIP library (and 
you'll unlikely will be able to produce correct binary database 
files for it...).

Maxim Dounin