Geo location fields missing from enriched events

This is something that I now affectionately refer to as the Dorothy Problem aka “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”

Historically for an IP address with an unknown location Maxmind has placed the location in Kansas - in a place called Coffeyville which roughly corresponds to the geographic centroid of the United States. In the last few years that’s shifted to Cheney Reservoir*, Kansas which is the location of 37.751, -97.822 you’re seeing in your data there.

The previous and largely accidental Coffeyville placement caused all sorts of issues for residents living close to where Maxmind placed all unknown addresses.

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