Hi @Lorimer the information on GPS coordinates is part of the Data Center NNS proposals, please have a look at step 9 of the NP onboarding process. It’s used as part of the dashboard, and not for decentralization calculations right now. As you can see from the onboarding process it is currently a one-time registration. What the Node Provider Working group is discussing is where the process of onboarding and monitoring/auditing node machines can be improved, this takes time of course but the group is looking at topics such as:
- Improvements in registration and validation of new Node Providers.
- Audit of data center information based on desk research.
- Monitoring to predict actual geolocation of node machines, and verify against registry information.
- Usefulness of actual Data Center site visits for auditing.