Universal Geo Context

Universal Geo Context Visitor geolocation detection and country resolution — evidence-based, privacy-respecting, and easily extensible. Status: v1.8.0 (M13) — Region & Subdivision Support. A working WordPress plugin that resolves a visitor's country (and, when a City-edition MaxMind database is in use, first-level subdivision) from a fixed chain of providers (Cloudflare headers, a local MaxMind database, WooCommerce's own geolocation, an optional remote MaxMind web service, and a configured default), attributes the answer to a source, scores its confidence, and hands back one immutable context object. It never persists a raw IP address, and never sends one off-server unless an administrator explicitly enables and acknowledges the remote provider. The local MaxMind database can now be kept up to date automatically, opt-in, via managed GeoLite2 Country downloads (managed City downloads were investigated and explicitly deferred — see docs/adr/0010-region-subdivision-support.md). Built for WooCommerce but works standalone. Design principles - Evidence, not policy. The plugin detects geo facts; consumers decide what they mean. It never resolves currency, language, tax, shipping, o