nigel, working from his mysterious secret base, has updated the javainetlocator library that powers the geoLocator CFC. if you use this CFC you need this update, lots of new IPs have emerged which the old library doesn't have data for.

you can find release notes (such as they are ;-) here.

the NSA was granted patent #6,947,978 on Sept. 20, 2005. this geo-location patent, invented by stephen huffman and michael reifer, with the NSA as it's assignee differs pretty significantly from other geo-location patents by Digital Envoy and Quova/Microsoft in that it relies on measuring the latency between a bunch of different internet locations to build a "network latency topology map." in theory, an internet address at an unknown location could be identified by measuring how long it takes computers at known location to connect to the unknown one. i'm really not sure how it will stack up against the more "normal" technologies but at least i can say it's a different approach. cnet has an article on this.

and if you care, you can see one of the more "traditional" technologies in action as a CFC here.

eric mauviere (he built that little flash map widget used to demo our geoLocator CFC), who i think has produced probably the best flash GIS i've ever seen, has updated his geoClip application. if you want to see how a GIS should be built with flash, check out his application.

the sweet is indeed made sweeter.

after months of being beseiged by angry, pitchfork and torch armed mobs, nigel's finally updated the InetAddressLocator.jar ;-) besides the updated IP database, we've included a remote classpath version of the CFC that uses spike's method in cases where you can't put the JAR in a classpath.

you can see the CFC in action (and pick up a copy) here or grab it from sourceforge.