How to generate city details based on IP?

Question

Hi Team

Please can someone suggest to me how we can generate city-based details using the IP address?

Answer 1

Based on my best knowledge, Azure Maps Doesn't offer IP to City mapping. As of now, Azure offers IP-to-country mapping.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/maps/geolocation/get-ip-to-location?tabs=HTTP

So the IP Address to Location Result shall give the following information

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/maps/geolocation/get-ip-to-location?tabs=HTTP#ipaddresstolocationresult

For IP to City, there are third-party services available. Some of them are given below.

https://ipinfo.io/

https://apilayer.com/marketplace/ip_to_location-api

Hope this helps

Answer 2

Hello,

Geolocation - Get IP To Location

You can use Azure Maps to obtain city-based details using an IP address. Azure Maps provides a REST API called "IP Address to Location" that allows you to get the geolocation of an IP address, including the city. Here are the steps to achieve this:

1. First, you need to sign up for an Azure Maps account and get an API key. You can sign up for a free account that allows up to 250,000 transactions per month.
2. Next, you can call the "IP Address to Location" API using the following URL:

https://atlas.microsoft.com/ipAddress/{ipAddress}?subscription-key={subscriptionKey}&api-version=1.0&verbose=true

Replace {ipAddress} with the IP address you want to get the details for and {subscriptionKey} with your Azure Maps subscription key.

1. The API returns a JSON response that includes the geolocation details of the IP address, including the city. Here is an example response:

{
    "type": "Point",
    "coordinates": [
        -122.33207,
        47.60621
    ],
    "properties": {
        "city": "Seattle",
        "state": "Washington",
        "country": "United States",
        "postalCode": "98101",
        "query": "104.44.194.72"
    }
}

As you can see, the response includes the city ("Seattle") in the "properties" section.

1. You can then parse the JSON response and extract the city name to use it in your application.

Note that the accuracy of the geolocation details obtained from an IP address may not always be 100% accurate, but it should be sufficient for most use cases.

Answer 3

As noted in some of the comments, Azure Maps Geolocation API only provides IP Address locations to country level at this time. I don't believe there is any Azure service that provides city level accurate IP Address to location information. There are non-Microsoft services available in the Azure Marketplace that do provide this functionality, such as this one: https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/fastah.ip_location_api_01?tab=Overview