@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +h2. Overview + +Through is a small geolocation web API. You can use it to: + +* Look up the location of an IP address +* Find out the time zone for a location +* Get responses in JSON +* Centralise your geographical data so each of your apps don't need to store it + +I didn't want to reproduce the same functionality across my web apps, so I thought an API would be a good solution. + h2. Installation # Install libgeoip (sudo port install libgeoip) README.textile f74016cedf4d92ff5b5d159e1e40d1d7e3bc7630 My Name alex@helicoid.net http://github.com/alexyoung/through/commit/ff50095924a466500819dc2ee518ab16261d17ca ff50095924a466500819dc2ee518ab16261d17ca 2008-10-11T15:24:25-07:00 2008-10-11T15:24:25-07:00 Added overview to readme 3de16e4a059dc85bf799eae182dad9c9ab0a170e My Name alex@helicoid.net