We made a fast geolocation library, and now we’re open sourcing it.
Geo-locating users is useful for many webites and applications. In some cases (such as ours), it is even required. To identify where a user is based, MaxMind’s GeoLite databases are popular, as they contain geolocation info linked to IP addresses. They are often accessed using the geolocation library 'GeoIP-lite', but…