NAME
    GeoIP2 - Perl API for MaxMind's GeoIP2 web services and databases

VERSION
    version 2.000001

DESCRIPTION
    This distribution provides an API for the GeoIP2 web services
    <http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/web-services> and databases
    <http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/downloadable>. The API also works
    with the free GeoLite2 databases
    <http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/>.

    See GeoIP2::WebService::Client for details on the web service client API
    and GeoIP2::Database::Reader for the database API.

SPEEDING UP DATABASE READING
    This module only depends on the pure Perl implementation of the MaxMind
    database reader (MaxMind::DB::Reader). If you install the libmaxminddb
    library (<http://maxmind.github.io/libmaxminddb/>) and
    MaxMind::DB::Reader::XS, then the XS implementation will be loaded
    automatically. The XS implementation is approximately 100x faster than
    the pure Perl implementation.

INTEGRATION WITH GEONAMES
    GeoNames (<http://www.geonames.org/>) offers web services and
    downloadable databases with data on geographical features around the
    world, including populated places. They offer both free and paid premium
    data. Each feature is uniquely identified by a "geoname_id", which is an
    integer.

    Many of the records returned by the GeoIP web services and databases
    include a "geoname_id" field. This is the ID of a geographical feature
    (city, region, country, etc.) in the GeoNames database.

    Some of the data that MaxMind provides is also sourced from GeoNames. We
    source data such as place names, ISO codes, and other similar data from
    the GeoNames premium data set.

REPORTING DATA PROBLEMS
    If the problem you find is that an IP address is incorrectly mapped,
    please submit your correction to MaxMind at
    <http://www.maxmind.com/en/correction>.

    If you find some other sort of mistake, like an incorrect spelling,
    please check the GeoNames site (<http://www.geonames.org/>) first. Once
    you've searched for a place and found it on the GeoNames map view, there
    are a number of links you can use to correct data ("move", "edit",
    "alternate names", etc.). Once the correction is part of the GeoNames
    data set, it will be automatically incorporated into future MaxMind
    releases.

    If you are a paying MaxMind customer and you're not sure where to submit
    a correction, please contact MaxMind support at for help. See
    <http://www.maxmind.com/en/support> for support details.

VERSIONING POLICY
    This module uses semantic versioning as described by
    <http://semver.org/>. Version numbers can be read as X.YYYZZZ, where X
    is the major number, YYY is the minor number, and ZZZ is the patch
    number.

PERL VERSION SUPPORT
    MaxMind has tested this API with Perl 5.8.8 and above. Reasonable
    patches for earlier versions of Perl 5.8 will be applied. We will not
    accept patches to support any version of Perl before 5.8.

    The data returned from the GeoIP2 web services includes Unicode
    characters in several locales. This may expose bugs in earlier versions
    of Perl. If Unicode support is important to you, we recommend that you
    use the most recent version of Perl available.

SUPPORT
    Please report all issues with this code using the GitHub issue tracker
    at <https://github.com/maxmind/GeoIP2-perl/issues>.

    If you are having an issue with a MaxMind service that is not specific
    to the client API please see <http://www.maxmind.com/en/support> for
    details.

AUTHORS
    *   Dave Rolsky <drolsky@maxmind.com>

    *   Greg Oschwald <goschwald@maxmind.com>

    *   Olaf Alders <oalders@maxmind.com>

CONTRIBUTOR
    Graham Knop <haarg@haarg.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2014 by MaxMind, Inc..

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

