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MaxMind GeoIP® City Database Last Updated: May 6th, 2008


Product Summary: Determine country, state/region, city, US area code, metro code, latitude, and longitude information for IP addresses worldwide. The downloadable database is available to established businesses only, please see the availability section below for details.

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With Updates
Downloadable Database: $370/site license, includes first month of updates. Includes coverage for all countries worldwide.

Web Service: $20 per 50,000 queries. No software or databases to install. More Information

Individual Countries: Available for individual countries and continents starting at $50. More Information

$370 site license fee and $90 per month of updates.

First month update fee included in one time fee. You may cancel your subscription at any time.

If you don't require monthly updates, then you can purchase updates at any time for up to 6 months after the initial purchase or last update for $90 per update. For instance, if you wanted to update every three months, the price would be $90 per quarterly update, for a total of $360 per year for updates.


Product Features - MaxMind GeoIP City Database
  • Updated weekly (Monthly for CSV Format)
  • Includes unlimited e-mail support
  • Site license (all machines within organization)
  • Includes the following fields:
    • Start IP Number
    • End IP Number
    • Location ID
    • Country Code
    • State/Region
    • City Name
    • Postal Code
    • Latitude
    • Longitude
    • Metro Code
    • Area Code
  • Over 99% accurate on a country level, 90% accurate on a state level, 81% accurate for the US within a 25 mile radius. For more details on our city coverage, see GeoIP City Coverage and Accuracy
  • Approximately 2,400,000 records.
  • Open Source binary API available for the following languages:
  • Automated updates for binary API database using geoipupdate on Linux/Unix, included in C API
Availability
Once your order has been processed you will be able to download the data in any one of the following formats:
  • Optimized binary file for usage in APIs. We recommend using the binary files with APIs instead of importing the CSV files into SQL because the binary format is more efficient and is easy to set up and use. We have APIs for both Linux/Unix and Windows.
  • Comma-separated values (Sample data)
  • GeoIP City, ISP and Organization Combined CSV (requires purchase of GeoIP ISP and GeoIP Organization) (Sample data)
  • GeoIP City, ISP, Organization, Domain, and Netspeed Combined CSV (requires purchase of GeoIP ISP, GeoIP Organization, GeoIP Domain, and GeoIP Netspeed) (Sample data)
  • Please allow 1-3 hours to process your order during US business hours, or up to 12 hours outside of US business hours. If we require additional information to verify the order is coming from an established company, the processing make take longer. In order to speed processing of your order, please use the e-mail address associated with your company. For licensing purposes, we reserve the right to limit orders to companies with established websites. We may ask for information on how the GeoIP database will be used, to verify the usage will be allowed under the license agreement. For non-established businesses, please contact sales@maxmind.com or use our free GeoLite City database.
Product Requirements
  • Uncompressed Disk Space:
    • Optimized binary file for usage in APIs. We recommend using the binary files with APIs instead of importing the CSV files into SQL because the binary format is more efficient and is easy to set up and use. We have APIs for both Linux/Unix and Windows. - 23 MB
    • Comma-separated values - 90 MB
    • GeoIP City, ISP and Organization Combined CSV (requires purchase of GeoIP ISP and GeoIP Organization) - 235 MB
    • GeoIP City, ISP, Organization, Domain, and Netspeed Combined CSV (requires purchase of GeoIP ISP, GeoIP Organization, GeoIP Domain, and GeoIP Netspeed) - 800 MB
  • For CSV Files format - WinZip or another similar PKzip archive extraction utility
  • Binary/API Format - gunzip/tar archive extraction utility
Database Fields
Field Data Type Field Description
Start IP Number unsigned int First IP in netblock, numeric representation.
End IP Number unsigned int Last IP in netblock, numeric representation.
Location ID unsigned int Location ID used to join netblock and location tables (CSV Only)
Country Code char(2) ISO 3166 Country Code, with the addition of
State/Region char(2) For US/Canada, ISO-3166-2 code for the state/province name. Outside of the US and Canada, FIPS 10-4 code
City Name varchar(255) Name of city or town in ISO-8859-1 encoding
Postal Code varchar(6) For US, Zipcodes, for Canada, postal codes. Available for about 56% of US GeoIP Records. More info.
Latitude numeric (float) Latitude of city where IP is located
Longitude numeric (float) Longitude of city where IP is located
Metro Code unsigned int Metropolitan Area (US Only).
Area Code unsigned int Three digit telephone prefix (US Only).

Disclaimer:
The database contains our best estimate for the location for every IP address, but may not be accurate or complete in all cases. Please try the demo before purchasing.


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