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How are zip/postcodes calculated in the geo-political stats? / Inconsistency in stats for Brunei

Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:13 pm
by nathanielcwm
Hi! I'm a new contributor to Wigle

Something I've noticed is that for Brunei in the statistics there is a bit of an inconsistency in the format of postcodes (some have a space between the alpha and numeric sections and others do not).
Additionally, I've also noticed that there have been several areas which I know I have uploaded some networks for which can't be found by postcode.
My final issue with the statistics is that Mukim Sengkurong is not a district and thus should not be separated from Brunei-Muara in regions (unless you also want to separate the other mukims out)

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Re: How are zip/postcodes calculated in the geo-political stats? / Inconsistency in stats for Brunei

Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 4:36 pm
by arkasha
Those are based on lookups done from the OSM Nominatim index at the time of trilateration - it's possible that:
- the OSM boundaries/codes are bad (but they're open source and you can help fix them!)
- the index used to be incorrect but has since been fixed (depending on when those networks were first seen/updated)
- our OSM deployment has a problem (we try and prevent this, things are generally good, but inconsistencies do arise)

We're open to other possibilities too - these are just the "big" ones.
feel free to attach some MAC addresses here with weird behavior, we can investigate!

Cheers and thanks for your interest!

-ark

Re: How are zip/postcodes calculated in the geo-political stats? / Inconsistency in stats for Brunei

Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:29 pm
by nathanielcwm
Ok that all sounds good. I wouldn't be surprised about inaccuracies in OSM for Brunei due to its small population.