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.
Piwik is currently not compatible with geopip2. We have already a ticket in out backlog. Follow Make geoip backend work with geoip2 · Issue #4487 · matomo-org/piwik · GitHub for more information.