Re: How to get Location informations from IP address.

From:
"Scott M." <s-mar@nospam.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp,microsoft.public.dotnet.general,microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet,microsoft.public.dotnet.framework
Date:
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:44:57 -0400
Message-ID:
<eTQvjQ8DKHA.5092@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
Again, an IP does not contain the information you seek to extract from it.
It's not meant to reprensent a physical location, although it *may* contain
regional information. But, even that is not reliable.

-Scott

"Cihan" <cihan_karagul@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Thank you very much for your helps guys.

I have used this code and it is working fine. for your informations.

   public class LocationInfo
   {
       public float Latitude { get; set; }
       public float Longitude { get; set; }
       public string CountryName { get; set; }
       public string CountryCode { get; set; }
       public string Name { get; set; }
   }
public LocationInfo GetLocationInfo(string ipParam)
       {
           LocationInfo result = null;
           IPAddress i = System.Net.IPAddress.Parse(ipParam);
           string ip = i.ToString();
                string r;
               using (var w = new WebClient())
               {
                   r =
w.DownloadString(String.Format("http://api.hostip.info/?ip={0}&position=true",
ip));
               }

               var xmlResponse = XDocument.Parse(r);
               var gml = (XNamespace)"http://www.opengis.net/gml";
               var ns = (XNamespace)"http://www.hostip.info/api";

               try
               {
                   result = (from x in xmlResponse.Descendants(ns +
"Hostip")
                             select new LocationInfo
                             {
                                 CountryCode = x.Element(ns +
"countryAbbrev").Value,
                                 CountryName = x.Element(ns +
"countryName").Value,
                                 Latitude = float.Parse(x.Descendants(gml
+ "coordinates").Single().Value.Split(',')[0]),
                                 Longitude = float.Parse(x.Descendants(gml
+ "coordinates").Single().Value.Split(',')[1]),
                                 Name = x.Element(gml + "name").Value
                             }).SingleOrDefault();
               }
               catch (NullReferenceException)
               {
                   //Looks like we didn't get what we expected.
               }

           return result;
       }

"Cihan" <cihan_karagul@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello,
I am looking for a .Net code which finds location information (country ,
city, streetname, postcode) for a specific IP-address.

Maybe there is webservice to do this. It is also can be usefull.

Best Regards.

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