#Ip locator plugin update
MaxMind also offer a method to download and update their databases programmatically. When the database(s) need updating in future you can simply download the latest version and overwrite this file in your storage. gs://my-private-bucket/third-party/maxmind Google Cloud Storage (if running Snowplow on GCS) e.g.s3://my-private-bucket/third-party/maxmind
Decide which databases you’d like to use and download them Some of the databases MaxMind maintains require a commercial subscription with MaxMind. The IP lookup enrichment uses MaxMind databases in order to take the IP address collected and add additional data points to every event generated by the user with a given IP address. MaxMind maintains databases of additional points of information like geographic location, second level domain names (), Internet Service Provider, organization name and several other data points publicly associated with a given IP address. When a user browses your site or app their IP address is collected. This enrichment uses MaxMind databases to look up useful data based on the IP address collected by your Snowplow tracker(s).