Reference data

Geo IPs

Version:

Format in Sitecore 8.x

In Sitecore 8.x, Geo IP data is stored in the MongoDB collection GeoIps.

The following is an example of a Geo IP record:

{
    "_id" : NUUID("850e4c07-a40b-199e-dc75-27a4df79e28b"),
    "_t" : "GeoIpData",
    "AreaCode" : "N/A",
    "BusinessName" : "The Garrison",
    "City" : "Birmingham",
    "Country" : "GB",
    "IspName" : "Birmingnet",
    "Latitude" : 52.489471,
    "Longitude" : -1.898575,
    "MetroCode" : "N/A",
    "PostalCode" : "B16",
    "Region" : "A7",
    "Classification" : 0,
    "Status" : 1,
    "Fetched" : ISODate("2018-01-01T10:00:00.000Z")
}

Format in Sitecore 9

In Sitecore 9, Geo IP data is stored as reference data.

Mapping details

This section describes how Geo IP data is mapped from Sitecore 8.x to 9.

Source object	Document from the GeoIps collection
Reference data object type	`Sitecore.Analytics.Model.GeoIpData,Sitecore.Analytics.Model`
Field mapping definition	xDB Reference Data Mappings > MongoDB GeoIps Document to xDB Geo IP Data

Value to write to reference data object	Property on reference data object
`AreaCode` from source object	`AreaCode`
`BusinessName` from source object	`BusinessName`
`City` from source object	`City`
`Classification` from source object	`Classification`
`Country` from source object	`Country`
`Fetched` from source object	`Fetched`
`_id` from source object	`Id`
`IspName` from source object	`IspName`
`MetroCode` from source object	`MetroCode`
`PostalCode` from source object	`PostalCode`
`Region` from source object	`Region`
`Status` from source object	`Status`

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