IP2Location vs CARTO: What are the differences?

What is IP2Location? IP geolocation solution to identify visitor's geographical location. It is IP geolocation solution to identify visitor's geographical location, i.e. country, region, city, latitude & longitude of city, ZIP code, time zone, connection speed, ISP, domain name, IDD country code, area code, weather station code and name, mobile carrier, elevation and usage type information using a proprietary IP address lookup database and technology without invading the Internet user's privacy. The IP2Location solution is available as database, programming API and hosted solution.

What is CARTO? The CARTO platform empowers business analysts, data scientists and more, to turn location data into business outcomes. The CARTO platform empowers everyone, from business analysts to data scientists, to turn location data into business outcomes. We accelerate innovation, power new use cases and disrupt business models through Location Intelligence.

IP2Location and CARTO are primarily classified as "IP Address / WHOIS API" and "Mapping APIs" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by IP2Location are:

• Accurate Geolocation
• Supports IPv4 & IPv6
• Easy Integration

On the other hand, CARTO provides the following key features:

• Drag and drop data import allows you to create visualizations in seconds
• Make sense of your location data and power your business.
• Create beautiful visualizations with our easy to use design and styling tools.

CARTO is an open source tool with 2.45K GitHub stars and 638 GitHub forks. Here's a link to CARTO's open source repository on GitHub.