[atlas] Updated RIPE Atlas roadmap

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On 23/12/2013 10:05, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 09:06:09AM +0100, dave <gboonie at gmail.com>
> wrote a message of 21 lines which said:
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>> Please tell me more. Is there a repository of scripts? I've
>> looked, but not yet found such.
> 
> There is apparently possible improvments on the web site... Iñigo 
> Ortiz de Urbina gave you the URL but do note there is today no
> script to apply Philip Homburg's excellent idea (download the list
> of probes, then filter, then create the measurement). TODO :-)
> 
>> If a script is available to configure pings from maximum 3 probes
>> in each AS in a selectable country to a selectable target, I'm 
>> interested.
> 
> Not yet. Anyone brave enough to do it and submit it to the Github 
> repository?

Hi,

I did have a similar itch-to-scratch, so I do have a hack laying
around that almost does what you want, it's usage description:

schootpunt$./select_probes.py -h
usage: select_probes.py [-h] [-v] [-l LOCSTRING] [-p POINT] [-r RADIUS]
                        [-c COUNT] [-f FIELDS] [-a MAXPERAS] [-d]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbosity
  -l LOCSTRING, --locstring LOCSTRING
                        location string, ie 'Amsterdam,NL'
  -p POINT, --point POINT
                        location as <lat>,<lon>-string, ie '48.45,9.16'
  -r RADIUS, --radius RADIUS
                        radius (km) within which to select probes
  -c COUNT, --count COUNT
                        number of probes requested
  -f FIELDS, --fields FIELDS
                        comma separated list of fields to return
(output is
                        tsv)
  -a MAXPERAS, --maxperas MAXPERAS
                        maximum no. of probes per IPv4 source AS
  -d, --includedownprobes
                        include probes that are down (default: don't
include
                        these)

This doesn't select an individual country, but selects probes around a
specific coordinate, so

./select_probes.py -l"Amsterdam,NL" -c 50 -a 3 -f id

Would return the IDs of the 50 closest probes to Amsterdam city center
(or whatever coordinate the google geocoding API gives for
"Amsterdam,NL"), with a maximum of 3 probes per v4 AS.

I can submit this to the Github, if it's close enough to what others
would want.

Emile

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