New M-Lab blog post “How M-Lab Determines User Location and Selects Servers” & Invitation for community contributions

[Measurement Lab Team]

Hi everyone, 

We’re pleased to share a new post on the M-Lab blog titled "How M-Lab Determines User Location and Selects Servers", authored by Loqman Salamatian and Phillipa Gill.

This blog post describes the two geolocation systems M-Lab uses for server selection and data annotation and how researchers can leverage metadata about the server selection to identify potentially erroneous client geolocation results in the annotated data. It provides valuable techniques for identifying inconsistencies in client geolocation data, which is particularly useful for researchers working with M-Lab’s public datasets.

Read the full post: https://www.measurementlab.net/blog/improving-m-lab-geolocation/ 

This post is a community-contributed blog post! We’re actively welcoming new contributions from our community and invite others to share their insights on internet measurement, research, and related topics. If you have insights to share or are working with M-Lab data, we encourage you to contribute.

Interested in contributing? Email us at he...@measurementlab.net 

Best,
The M-Lab Team