IP address geocoder

Function

SELECT geocode_ip(Array['1.0.16.0', '::ffff:1.0.16.0'])

Source table structure


                                                                Table "public.ip_address_locations"
        Column        |           Type           |                                 Modifiers                                 | Storage 
----------------------+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------
 network_start_ip     | inet                     |                                                                           | main    
 the_geom             | geometry(Geometry,4326)  |                                                                           | main    
 cartodb_id           | integer                  | not null default nextval('geolite2_city_blocks_cartodb_id_seq'::regclass) | plain   
 created_at           | timestamp with time zone | not null default now()                                                    | plain  
 updated_at           | timestamp with time zone | not null default now()                                                    | plain   
 the_geom_webmercator | geometry(Geometry,3857)  |                                                                           | main

Creation steps

Create the ip_address_locations table
Obtain the file from http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLite2-City-CSV.zip
Uncompress it and upload the GeoLite2-City-Blocks-IPv4.csv file
Rename the uploaded table as latest_ip_address_locations
Run the sql/build_data_table script to update the table

Data Sources

GeoLite2 open source database Created by MaxMind - http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/ Download the CSV Geolite2 City

Preparation details

This section doesn't require special processing.

Testing

In order to test the data and the functions created under the script avaialble in this folder, you will need to run bash test.sh from test/data and test/functions.

Historic:

[23/06/2015]:
- Updates README.md
- Adding test structure for IP addresses geocoder