[e2e] Mapping IP Addresses to Geographic Location

[Ayyasamy, Senthilkumar (UMKC-Student)]

Hi Shane,
    I am really interested in your work.I have seen numerous works relating the zip and the IP address.Even netgeo does the same work.Also there have been extensive research by Padmabhanan & Lakshminarayanan on various location identification with no additional infrastructure (unlike some other services which require GSM ).Also,the center for spatial research does a lot of work on this issue (http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html ).
   I am really curious on what exactly you do with this data and how different is your work from all the previous works on the same line.I find that your site doesnt give those details.
  - senthil

-----Original Message-----
From: Shane Cruz [mailto:shanec at media.mit.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 4:51 PM
To: end2end-interest at postel.org
Subject: [e2e] Mapping IP Addresses to Geographic Location


I am currently in the process of researching the possibilities of 
generating a mapping from IP addresses to geographic locations.  I am 
starting by analyzing various techniques and methodologies (such as 
parsing WHOIS and traceroute requests) in order to get a good idea of the 
accuracy that can be provided with these methods.  In order to create a 
useful analysis, I need to obtain a sizeable data set that maps IP 
addresses to actual location information (such as a zip code).  Does 
anybody know of a good way to obtain this type of data?  Currently, I have 
created a site that has a simple form for users to enter their zip code so 
I can store the IP and zip.  For more information about this research, and 
to help me in collecting this data, please visit:

http://www.media.mit.edu/~shanec/ipmapping.html

Thanks for your help and suggestions!

Shane

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Shane E. Cruz
Research Assistant, Critical Computing Group
MIT Media Laboratory
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Email: shanec at media.mit.edu