Run View based on anonymous users location

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Posted by barry769 on September 9, 2010 at 10:45pm

I have a website that has a large amount of nodes with locations and ratings associated with them. When an anonymous user visits my site, i need for it to determine the city of the user and display to the user the highest rated node within a set distance of them.

Also, it would be an added bonus if I were able to display a map which was centered on the location of the anonymous user.

If the user were to be logged in, I would like to use the location specified at profile creation, but getting it to run off of the ip address determination first is most important.

Which modules/approach would be the best to address this?

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Geo module hooks into Views

Posted by maedi on September 10, 2010 at 12:02am
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Geo module hooks into Views and has a proximity filter.

Does the Geo module also have

Posted by barry769 on September 10, 2010 at 1:34pm
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Does the Geo module also have anything that determines the city of an anonymous user? So far, that is the hardest part that I am having to figure out.

Geolocation based on IP address

Posted by tom_o_t on September 10, 2010 at 1:48pm
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Take a look at http://drupal.org/project/geoip - it's just an API, but may be able to give you some information to work with.

Also
* http://drupal.org/node/45806
* http://drupal.org/project/geouser
* http://drupal.org/project/hostip
* http://drupal.org/project/ip2nation
* http://drupal.org/project/ip2country

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I'm a fan of the geoip module

Posted by allie micka on September 10, 2010 at 4:10pm
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What I'd really like to see and/or do is as follows:

  • Write a handler for the Geocode module that can use GeoIP API to convert IP addresses to Geo Data. This would allow you to use it for storing field values, working with Views, or anything else that the Geocode API might be tasked to do.
  • One or more default argument handlers for Geo's Views support, which would allow you to use this derived information to automagically show results by proximity to users.

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