Can piwik be made compatible to this methodology of making geoip calls: GeoIP2 Precision Services | MaxMind
This is prefect, at least for not-so-busy websites. In order to minimize the number of calls, some optimization will be necessary.
Thanks for suggestion! We cannot make piwik compatible with this since it would affect performance, and would make Piwik dependent on this third party service. that’s why we really recommend to setup geoip as explained in: Geo Locate your visitors - Analytics Platform - Matomo
Buying the database is much more expensive … 