A number of businesses collect data from companies providing internet infrastructure which map IP addresses to the physical locations. Depending on the services provider, this can be identified down to very specific locations in some cases this can be unique addresses, in others it will be the local phone exchange to the individual or company allocated the IP. These are companies such as IP2Location.com and IPLocation.net.
IP2Location provides their course grained (IP mapped to a country or region) data set for free. As course grained accuracy is all that is needed the free dataset from IP2Location and having a downloaded local data set means that MRA can ensure that the API gateway performance is not impacted ...
