What changes when a country redraws its administrative borders
When a region merges, splits, or gets renamed, every address and every dataset referencing the old boundary needs to be updated, and that update rarely happens everywhere at once.
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#data-refresh
Why threat and network data ages faster than location data
A building's coordinates do not change from one week to the next. Whether an IP range belongs to a VPN provider can change far faster, and that difference should shape how each is refreshed.
Data refresh cycles: how often location data should change
Location data is not static. New addresses get built, postal boundaries shift, and IP blocks get reassigned, all on different timescales that matter for accuracy.