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Determine IPs' Geographical Location
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by
Ralph Tegtmeier
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Determining an IP's geographical location without
proper tools can be a daunting task. Here's a site
which lets you do it online by simply entering the
IP in a search field:
http://cello.cs.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/slamm/ip2ll/

If you're interested in the technology involved
(it is focused around a research project on the use
of virtual reality as a mode of presenting performance
data), go here:
http://www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/Project/VR/globe.htm
and:
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~olson/IPtoLL.html

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Ralph Tegtmeier is the co-founder and principal of
fantomaster.com Ltd. (UK) and fantomaster.com GmbH
(Belgium), a company specializing in webmasters
software development, industrial-strength cloaking and
search engine positioning services.
He has been a web marketer since 1994 and is
editor-in-chief of fantomNews, a free newsletter
focusing on search engine optimization, available at:
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You can contact him at
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