How to determine location based on IP

[Kannan Nadar]

Hi Team,

I would like to determine a user's location based on IP Address without using any third party tool or API.

Please let me know if there is a way.

Thanks,

Kannan

[Kannan Nadar]

Hello Adil,

Thank you for your reply.

But for this method we would need to use Google Maps API. I am trying to find a solution without any external API's.

Thanks,

Kannan

[adilrathore]

Does your internal AD team put the machines in ActiveDirectory OUs named as per Country > City. If that is possible then you need to query the AD for LDAP path of the machine.

[Kannan Nadar]

Yes, we do have information about that, but what if the user is travelling with his laptop?

[adilrathore]

If it is a permanent relocation then I believe his machine would be migrated to a different OU as there would be site specific group policies that the machine needs to adhere to...

[Brad Tilton]

Why don't you prepopulate it as best you can, and then provide a way for the user to change it if they need to? Why don't you want to use an external service?