Geo-location: track visitor countries [DONE - PRO FEATURE]

[dannyvankooten]

For new visitors, increment the count for their respective country. Because this would need on-site geolocation (since we don't want to send IP addresses across the wire) this would most likely be best suited as a Pro feature.

[fancsali]

If you mean MaxMind geoip by 'on-site geolocation' I can't see the complexity. I am confident, there are PHP bindings for that - hence I can't see why that'd mean 'Pro feature'.

On the other hand, if you'd be prepared to maintain KokoAnalytcs' own GeoIP DB, that's another question...

[baden03]

Why limit to country? State was the missing feature that dismissed this plugin as a valid solution for us. Cities exist.

[dannyvankooten]

If you mean MaxMind geoip by 'on-site geolocation' I can't see the complexity. I am confident, there are PHP bindings for that - hence I can't see why that'd mean 'Pro feature'.

The issue is mainly that MaxMind requires an account / license key to use their database and the database can't be included in the source code of the plugin because of its licensing. So we would need to add a mechanism for users to authenticate with MaxMind and then periodically refresh the database. It's of course possible, but a lot more complex than simply shipping the database file inside the plugin source. I'm not sure I am ready to support that on a free basis.

[fancsali]

Hm. I was under the impression, that the legacy database is free – at least in Debian you can (at least could) just say `apt-get install geoip-whatever-legacy`, and those guys are pretty serious about licensing. Perhaps the free version could come without database, and the user could provide their own (by WP upload or OS path); the pro version would however take care of the whole thing.

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On Fri, 3 Nov 2023, 07:05 Danny van Kooten, ***@***.***> wrote: If you mean MaxMind geoip by 'on-site geolocation' I can't see the complexity. I am confident, there are PHP bindings for that - hence I can't see why that'd mean 'Pro feature'. The issue is mainly that MaxMind requires an account / license key to use their database and the database can't be included in the source code of the plugin because of its licensing. So we would need to add a mechanism for users to authenticate with MaxMind and then periodically refresh the database. It's of course possible, but a lot more complex than simply shipping the database file inside the plugin source. I'm not sure I am ready to support that on a free basis. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#225 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAMXX6ANBG5PBFMZWXPEAGDYCSJUJAVCNFSM6AAAAAA6P3LHVKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM3TINRTHA2TI> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.*** com>

[dannyvankooten]

Geo-location (on a country level) is now included in Koko Analytics Pro.