I’m just building a map of some ip addresses and need to geolocate them. I decided to use the MaxMind database. I found these two brilliant resource without which I could not have imported the databases properly.
There are:
http://www.dbasquare.com/2012/06/01/implementing-efficient-geo-ip-location-system-in-mysql/
http://nickbartlett.com/wordpress/using-maxmind-geo-city-lite-database-on-your-website/