
Hello, When you start a measurement, you can specify an area to chose probes from. These areas are like "West", "North-Central", "South-East"... What do they corresponds to? If I use the "West" area, this is the west of what? Of the europe? Because "west of the world" barely makes any sense to me, and I can't find any documentation about these areas. I feel like I'm missing something obvious, so I'd be grateful if someone can enlighten me :) Thanks, Yohan

Hi Yohan, The definition is a little bit buried, but it is here in the RIPE Atlas docs: https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/getting-started/user-defined-measurements#random... On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 at 21:02, Yohan Prod'homme via ripe-atlas < ripe-atlas@ripe.net> wrote:
Hello,
When you start a measurement, you can specify an area to chose probes from.
These areas are like "West", "North-Central", "South-East"... What do they corresponds to? If I use the "West" area, this is the west of what? Of the europe?
Because "west of the world" barely makes any sense to me, and I can't find any documentation about these areas.
I feel like I'm missing something obvious, so I'd be grateful if someone can enlighten me :)
Thanks, Yohan
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Oh... I don't know how I missed it here. Thanks Christopher! :) Yohan Le 07/07/2025 à 21:37, Christopher Amin a écrit :
Hi Yohan,
The definition is a little bit buried, but it is here in the RIPE Atlas docs:
https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/getting-started/user-defined-measurements#random...
On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 at 21:02, Yohan Prod'homme via ripe-atlas <ripe-atlas@ripe.net> wrote:
Hello,
When you start a measurement, you can specify an area to chose probes from.
These areas are like "West", "North-Central", "South-East"... What do they corresponds to? If I use the "West" area, this is the west of what? Of the europe?
Because "west of the world" barely makes any sense to me, and I can't find any documentation about these areas.
I feel like I'm missing something obvious, so I'd be grateful if someone can enlighten me :)
Thanks, Yohan
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