[mat-wg] Geoloc API covered_percentage

Dear Noriyuki,

The "covered percentage" value shows how much of the referenced IP space
is known in the geoip database (MaxMind's GeoLite City, [1]).
This referenced IP space depends on the look-up type:
- For a prefix look-up it is the given prefix itself.
- For an ASN look-up it is related to the prefixes this ASN originates.

A recent update to the documentation makes it more clear,
https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#Geoloc.

Best regards,
Christian


[1] http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/

On 19/05/15 12:00, Arai Noriyuki wrote:
> 
> hi all,
> 
> i am trying to do something with the geoloc API and i found there is
> an item named "covered percentage" for every location. what does it
> mean?
> 
> (i once thought it is the percentage of the IP addresses in that
> location among the whole address space of the object resource. but it
> sounds i was wrong. :P)
> 
> thanks and regards,
> noriyuki
>