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Countries, Approximate Lat-Lon and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

code 26 April 2010 | 3 Comments

We’re working on a visualization of real-time clicks on our http://appsto.re short URL. The cheap GeoIP database we use to convert IP address to geographical coordinates only gives us country-codes. ISO 3166-1 defines the encoding of ”countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest” into codes, and the 2-character encoding subset is defined in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2. [...]