Question about [literally] mapping location based on an IP address.

Question

I've been bored lately and I want to start a new project. I was looking at a website mentioned in a different question (http://www.grapevinegame.com/), and I thought the map and how it plots a point based on someone's IP (I assume) is pretty nifty. I want to do something like that, but I have no idea how it's done. I know you can get latitude and longitude, city and state, and some more with some already-written scripts, but how would you plot those on a map of the world? I've seen it other places, like Google Analytics and such, as well.

It seems like a neat thing to be able to do, so I was just wondering how exactly to go about doing it. (Plotting the locations on a map and "drawing" a route between them.)

Answer 1

Given latitude and longitude, it's just a matter of using a map API, like Google Maps API, to display a set of points (where a point is a lat/lng pair) in a browser. Did you have a more specific question?

Answer 2

I also agree that you can use the Google Map API together with some geolocation service provider for the data to plot out the what you want on the map. You can give a try to study manual from Google Map API.

If you are looking for geolocation service, I think you can get accurate data from IP2Location, it has been used by most comprehensive company around the world for detecting IP address