GeoIP on Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) using Hadoop Streaming (Python)

I wanted to be able to run geo-data calculations on Amazon Elastic Map Reduce using Hadoop streaming jobs – particularly in Python. While we cannot easily install required Python dependencies, this problem can be solved by using the cacheArchive feature of Hadoop.

Python: Looking up country name from country code

A simple Python program to lookup the full country name (and other details) from country code. You can also look up timezones, capital, etc from this.

Getting Python GeoIP working on Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 doesn’t allow easy installation of a “python-geoip” for GeoIP usage with Python, so you have to do this manually.