Pre-selecting country

[loostaq]

Hello,

 

When a customer lands on our store, is it possible to have customer's country pre-selected either by

 

1) customer selects the country himself by drop-down, or,

2) the country is automatically selected by IP?

 

By pre-selecting I mean the same function where customer selects the country at checkout - so basically "copying" the country selection function from checkout to the frontend. I need this to be pre-selected on frontend before the customer start browsing the products. 

 

The reason why I am asking this is that currently a customer from another country is seeing the shipping methods and costs associated with the default country and probably does not even realise that before he changes the country at the checkout - which is not optimal.

 

We are already using IP geotargeting for other purposes, but haven't found a way to change the country by it. But like I said, simple country dropdown would be sufficient.

 

Any thoughts?