[Viking-devel] Location IP not working?

[Nils]

Hi,

getting the location at program start does not seem to be working. I'm
running the latest GIT sources:

** (viking:23172): WARNING **: curl_download_uri: http response: 404 for
uri http://api.hostip.info/get_json.php?position=true

Going to the URL gives a Error 404 Vhost unknown

Is there a generic format for returning the location, and are there
other services? If so, maybe this could become a setting? Else I guess
if this site has disappeared we just need another one.

Thanks
Nils

[Robert Norris]

Yes unfortunately http://api.hostip.info seems permanently dead.


There isn't a generic format for returning a location (well there is if any one used GPX with a single waypoint!),

so everyone seems to invent their own XML and/or JSON (possibly with a published schema) for the various metadata fields that get returned in API request.


So one ends up writing specific code against specific websites [:(] (or even more complicated code to convert various schemas into Viking's internal representation).


It's quite possible I can change the code to use the service from http://www.geoplugin.com/ instead.


It would helpful you could create a Viking Bug on Source Forge to remind me to do this.


--
Be Seeing You - Rob.
If at first you don't succeed,
then skydiving isn't for you.
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From: Nils <***@gmx.net>
Sent: 18 July 2016 09:20:25
To: viking-***@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Viking-devel] Location IP not working?

Hi,

getting the location at program start does not seem to be working. I'm
running the latest GIT sources:

** (viking:23172): WARNING **: curl_download_uri: http response: 404 for
uri http://api.hostip.info/get_json.php?position=true

Going to the URL gives a Error 404 Vhost unknown

Is there a generic format for returning the location, and are there
other services? If so, maybe this could become a setting? Else I guess
if this site has disappeared we just need another one.

Thanks
Nils

[Robert Norris]

The latest source code has a fix for this, using http://www.geoplugin.com/


Luckily it was quite easy to switch the code to use this provider instead.


--
Be Seeing You - Rob.
If at first you don't succeed,
then skydiving isn't for you.
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From: Robert Norris <***@hotmail.com>
Sent: 04 August 2016 21:18:59
To: viking-***@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Viking-devel] Location IP not working?


Yes unfortunately http://api.hostip.info seems permanently dead.


There isn't a generic format for returning a location (well there is if any one used GPX with a single waypoint!),

so everyone seems to invent their own XML and/or JSON (possibly with a published schema) for the various metadata fields that get returned in API request.


So one ends up writing specific code against specific websites [:(] (or even more complicated code to convert various schemas into Viking's internal representation).


It's quite possible I can change the code to use the service from http://www.geoplugin.com/ instead.


It would helpful you could create a Viking Bug on Source Forge to remind me to do this.


--
Be Seeing You - Rob.
If at first you don't succeed,
then skydiving isn't for you.
________________________________
From: Nils <***@gmx.net>
Sent: 18 July 2016 09:20:25
To: viking-***@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Viking-devel] Location IP not working?

Hi,

getting the location at program start does not seem to be working. I'm
running the latest GIT sources:

** (viking:23172): WARNING **: curl_download_uri: http response: 404 for
uri http://api.hostip.info/get_json.php?position=true

Going to the URL gives a Error 404 Vhost unknown

Is there a generic format for returning the location, and are there
other services? If so, maybe this could become a setting? Else I guess
if this site has disappeared we just need another one.

Thanks
Nils