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by wongarsu 935 days ago
To be fair, some IPs simply can't reasonably be mapped beyond the country level (even if MaxMind often tries).

For example in Germany some carriers just give you a random IP from a pool that is used for half the country, and will give you a new IP every 24 hours. How would you geolocate those with a downloadable database.