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Re:Show HN: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your n... by serbuvlad on Sunday July 20, 2025 @10:19PM (#44631213)
From what I was able to tell looking at the code, yes.

The database is embedded in the program. Specifically, it is this file:

https://github.com/h2337/connmap/blob/master/connmap/resourc...

Presumably generated by the author with this Python script

https://github.com/h2337/connmap/blob/master/tools/get-ip-da...

Re:Show HN: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your n... by lxgr on Sunday July 20, 2025 @10:23PM (#44631233)
Ah, cool, this should incorporate location data at least as good as what the networks self-report! (I suspect that these databases, on top of ingesting all geofeed data, do something similar to Wi-Fi positioning, i.e. correlate the IP address of various GPS-enabled devices with their physical location to try and deduce undocumented/non-public allocation patterns.)