Geolocated City with MaxMind GeoIP2 (mm2city, city)

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Description

Uses MaxMind GeoIP2 services to return the city name associated with an IPv4 or IPv6 address.

Agnostic operation alias

The alias city is an agnostic operation aimed at defining more generic names for the GeoIP v2 operations.

Note that agnostic operations are only available in our APIs for now. These will be available in the search window of the Devo app in future releases.

How does it work in the search window?

This operation needs only one argument:

Argument	Data type

Argument	Data type
Ip (v4 or v6) ^mandatory	ip, ip6

The data type of the new column is string.

Example

In the demo.ecommerce.data table, we want to get the city names associated with the IP addresses in our clientIpAddress column, so we click Create column and select the Geolocated City with MaxMind GeoIP2 operation. Select clientIpAddress as the argument and assign a name to the new column - let's call it cityIp.

The result is a column of string data type containing the name of the associated city (if any).

How does it work in LINQ?

Use the operator select... as... and add the operation syntax to create the new column. These are the valid formats of the Geolocated City with MaxMind GeoIP2 operation:

mm2city(ip)
mm2city(ip6)

Example

Copy the following LINQ script and try the above example on the demo.ecommerce.data table.

from demo.ecommerce.data
mm2city(clientIpAddress) as cityIp