[atlas] Fwd: Re: Proble locations (Changed because of Geo-IP)

Dear Martin,

I'm sorry for this, we recently made a change which keeps the location
of those probes which are geolocated (i.e. *without* a manually set
address) up to date. Previously such probes were geolocated once, and
never again. It was never the intention to overwrite manually given
locations.

Unfortunately, it seems that a number of probes were erroneously marked
as being automatically geolocated when in fact their owners had
carefully provided a location. We are now looking at our logs to see how
many probes might have been affected by this, and whether we can
automatically revert the location in those cases.

As for your point about not being able to enter the location, there is a
text box above the map popup which should allow you to enter a textual
address. If this isn't working for you, please let me know.

Apologies once again.

Kind regards,
Chris Amin
RIPE NCC


On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 01:10:30 -0800 (PST), Martin Winter wrote:

> I have actually the address in it.
> The earlier webpage had a way to enter Lat/Lon for probes (which I can't
> find anymore).
> 
> I think a simple Geo-Lokup based on addresses in description would have
> done a much better job.
> But a field to enter lat/lon in it and take this as a preference (if
> entered) without going to overwrite it would be a good start.
> 
> I mainly worry on whatever happend there in this process may have
> misplaced a lot of probes to the wrong location.
> Anyone else noticed that their probe moved to a new (wrong) location?
> 
> - Martin
> 
> 
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Grewal, Jas wrote:
> 
>> Agreed, how about including this critical information in the
>> description field to get around this, perhaps?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ripe-atlas [mailto:ripe-atlas-bounces at ripe.net] On Behalf Of
>> Martin Winter
>> Sent: 25 February 2015 07:29
>> To: ripe-atlas at ripe.net
>> Subject: [atlas] Proble locations (Changed because of Geo-IP)
>>
>> So I've noticed that (at least some) probes got the location
>> automatically updated based on Geo IP.
>> However, this is frequently fundamentially broken. One of my probe
>> moved from San Jose, CA to somewhere in the middle of Texas. (Broken
>> Geo-IP location for AT&T DSL users).
>> (The example I talk about is proble #10770)
>>
>> Kind of sad... not sure how many had this happening. Specially as I
>> took care to put the exact lat/lon in the User interface in the past.
>> Now I can only reposition it by dragging on a map - and that seems to
>> be broken as well (at least it fails to save when I try to correct
>> this probes location on Chrome)
>>
>> I wonder how many and why there was a decision to change the location.
>> I think the location were much better before they got force-changed.
>>
>> - Martin Winter
>>
>>
>>
>>
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