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Old 12-15-2008, 12:22 AM  
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Originally Posted by Retox Josh View Post
Nice job man! keep it up and I may replace using my own geo database from maxmind with your solution in my products :D
I have a table that converts the region in maxmind's geoip db to a proper region name - maxmind's works fine for the US, but outside that, it's just codes (mine is B8). The nearby search replaces these codes (ie FR.B8 for me) with the real name (ie Provence-Alpes-C'ôte-d'Azur)

Now that the code lookup/replace works on the nearby stuff, I'll be swapping them out in the geoip lookups next.

And fixing this cyrillic/latin swap that happened. That's the problem with these databases - if you aren't in that locality, it's a bitch to try and squash bugs cos you never see them!
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