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[Stefan Sabolowitsch <Stefan.Sabolowitsch AT felten-group.com>]

Hi Jeff,
done for ns1.lu, ns12.de and ns13.de

cheers
Stefan

Am 26.07.2012 um 08:59 schrieb Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>:

> We now have server location fields on the wiki page for Tier-2 servers. 
> If you visit http://wiki.opennicproject.org/Tier2 and click to modify
> your server(s), you will see towards the bottom new fields for entering
> the latitude and longitude for the location of your public server.
> 
> If you are uncertain as to the coordinates, there is a link provided on
> the wiki page which will allow you to pinpoint your location.  At the
> top of the page is an address field where you can enter your city and
> country.  Alternatively you can zoom in on the map, then
> single-left-click your point on the map.  Below the map, to the left,
> you are given the latitude and longitude.  Please use the decimal values
> from here to update your server on the wiki page.
> 
> There is no set policy for where you define your server location.  You
> could mark the coordinates of your own house, however I would recommend
> instead that everyone mark the location of their ISP or hosting
> provider.  With IPv6 entries, you can either mark the location of your
> provider, or the location of your IPv6 tunnel host.
> 
> The goal behind this project is to provide more accurate location
> information for each server.  This is useful for locating the nearest
> geographical server(s) to a user's location, or providing useful mapping
> like the project at http://opennic.oss/osm/
> We have found that by using geoIP to map out servers, many are pinned to
> the wrong locations (sometimes to the wrong country).  And there is no
> way to map out IPv6 locations since many people are using tunnels.  By
> manually entering the correct location of your server(s), you help
> increase the usefulness of any mapping projects for OpenNic.
> 
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