request: move to geoip2
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Just wondering if this is possible?
https://github.com/maxmind/GeoIP2-python
it would seem maxmind changed over to a new database format GeoIP.mmdb and is incompatible with pygeoip.
It would be nice to be able to use their new free GeoIP2Lite database as i have started noticing people from germany being tag as connecting from russia.
Will not be done, as Maxmind requires an account to download the database files.
I dont believe that the file can be shared in this case.
And since the format is completely different, a total new implementation would be required.
So feel free to implement that by your own :-)
I think a found another solution for an update of the existing database.
The package geoip-database is part of Linux, and the coming Ubuntu 20.04 has a database from Jan.2020 included. Since the license for this file is an ODbL, sharing will be allowed.
that sounds great - in the meantime i modified my local version to use maxmind new database
Thanks for the great work - I have just discovered Prism and loving it also :)