MaxMind's GeoIP Integration

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What is GeoIP? With GeoIP you can detect where your visitors are coming from. You can use this information to deliver personalized information, reducing credit card fraud, analyzing web server logs.

About MaxMind Founded in 2002, MaxMind is an industry-leading provider of geolocation and online fraud detection tools.

MaxMind provides its geolocation technology through the GeoIP brand. By accurately pinpointing the location of Internet customers and visitors by country, geographic region, down to the granular detail of city in real-time, MaxMind enables online businesses to have a valuable marketing tool as well as the ability to customize their websites to better serve clients.

How to integrate AbleCommerce powered store with MaxMind First of all you need to have data file containing GeoIP information. In order to write this WIKI topic I used a free data file available at [MaxMind GeoLite City Binary Format url=http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz]