Re: [cti-stix] Re: [EXT] [cti-stix] Location, latitude/longitude, and precision

[Trey Darley <trey@newcontext.com>]

On 19.07.2017 12:32:54, Wunder, John A. wrote:
> 
> I’m also not sure how realistic a precision of 0 is. Even an address
> isn’t really precise to 0 meters, and this would mean that producers
> who can’t be bothered to populate precision are by default saying
> their lat/lng is super precise, which is probably not accurate. If
> we do have optional with a default, I’d suggest we go with what New
> Context came up with (10km) in the absence of other compelling
> reasons.
> 

The only producers able to specify lat/long with 0m precision are
probably in the business of expedited Hellfire missile delivery, not
CTI feeds.

The 10km precision default value was derived from analysis of
MaxMind's dataset. 10km is *not* a WAG.

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