[tor-bugs] #8127 [Metrics/Website]: Bring back the relays-by-country graph

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#8127: Bring back the relays-by-country graph
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 Reporter:  karsten          |          Owner:  metrics-team
     Type:  enhancement      |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  Low              |      Milestone:
Component:  Metrics/Website  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal           |     Resolution:
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Comment (by karsten):

 Replying to [comment:5 anadahz]:
 > Replying to [comment:4 karsten]:
 > >  - Updating geoip files is a manual steps. In fact, we're currently
 using the very same geoip file in a graph covering years of data. We'll
 need to find a way for automating updating geoip files. And we need to
 define which geoip file we're using for any given consensus. That last
 sentence alone is far from being trivial if we want to ensure that two
 people have a chance to independently produce the same graph.
 >
 > Aren't these the same GeoIP files as the ones used for Tor metrics
 currently?

 Well, Onionoo uses the latest of these GeoIP files in MaxMind's format.
 But nothing else in Tor Metrics uses these files. Nothing of this is hard,
 it's just a couple substeps that need to be done.

 > >  - Everything here works with files, but we'll want to use a database,
 or we'll be sad whenever the server reboots in the wrong moment. And we
 want the database schema to scale for the next five years.
 >
 > Nonetheless do you think that these issues can be created as separate
 sub-tickets?

 Not really. These were just some examples, not a list of things that need
 to be done to resolve this ticket. I'd like to leave the implementation
 steps to whoever implements this.

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