Mailody meets Marble

Posted by toma on August 30, 2008; This entry is filed under English.
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As you might have figured, I’m trying to integrate with every technology that is Hot. Today I decided to sidetrack from the Nepomuk integration and do another one in the meanwhile.

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What you see in the image is the route of a mail message. You can see the origin of a mail in the map and how the message got to you…

It analyses the headers, grabs the ip-addresses of the mail servers, translates them to coordinates, start the MarbleWidget and draws the items on there.

Currently I use the unmaintained http://netgeo.caida.org-site to give me the coordinates which belong to an ip-address. I’m not so happy with that. I rather use the geoclue system, but I don’t really understand how to implement it.

Maybe someone has an idea what I can use best for the conversion from ip-address to location? Find me on freenode irc, nickname toma or leave a message.

8 Comments

  1. Torsten Rahn August 30th, 2008 at 17:25

    Hi Tom,

    If you draw using GeoPainter and use

    GeoPainter::drawAnnotation( ….. )

    as used in the test plugin you’d get more fancy graphics ;)

  2. randomguy3 August 30th, 2008 at 17:44

    I’m not sure GeoClue is really what you want – as far as I can tell, it’s a “where am I right now” service, with no provisions for “where is IP x.x.x.x”.

    Some of the providers may be able to do this as a way of finding “where am I now”, but that’s not to say that such a provider will be available.

  3. scroogie August 30th, 2008 at 18:12

    You could also use http://www.hostip.info/ although i have no clue how good it is.

  4. Kevin Kofler August 30th, 2008 at 19:24

    What about GeoLite? http://www.maxmind.com/app/c

  5. Tom Albers August 30th, 2008 at 20:48

    that only maps to cities and countries as far as i can see. coordinates would be better. next to that, i think an online database is better for this.

  6. Tom Albers August 30th, 2008 at 20:49

    Thanks a lot. I’ve added this source to the lookup and fall back to the other one if needed.

  7. Anoniemoes September 7th, 2008 at 21:55

    “I’m trying to integrate with every technology that is Hot.”

    Not a good design policy. This seems like just another bloated feature of no real benefit to me. Why clutter up the menues any more?

  8. Patrick Spendrin September 8th, 2008 at 17:29

    instead of using the way of a plugin, you should now be able to simply add a Placemark containing a LineString in the normal way (addKmlfromData). Styles should work too, overlays aren’t working yet.