User location visualization

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Travis Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 30 Aug 07 Posts: 2046 Credit: 26,480 RAC: 0	Message 59002 - Posted: 20 Jun 2013, 21:15:50 UTC Last modified: 20 Jun 2013, 21:16:04 UTC Hi Everyone, I generated some interesting images for a publication Heidi is working on yesterday, and thought they'd be worth sharing. I took 10,000 external IP addresses of active hosts, did a GeoIP lookup for their lat/long and then plotted them using google maps. The first is a set of points, and the second is a heatmap (generated with heatmap.js). Enjoy! ID: 59002 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

[boinc.at] Nowi Send message Joined: 22 Mar 09 Posts: 99 Credit: 503,422,495 RAC: 0	Message 59004 - Posted: 20 Jun 2013, 21:42:25 UTC - in response to Message 59002. nice! ID: 59004 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Purple Rabbit Send message Joined: 9 Nov 08 Posts: 44 Credit: 128,043,914 RAC: 0	Message 59007 - Posted: 21 Jun 2013, 0:32:16 UTC Last modified: 21 Jun 2013, 0:57:25 UTC I'm in that blue blob on the east coast of the USA and have been for quite some time. I used to be in a different blob...sigh. That was my birth blob. I've been away from my birth blob since I got smart-my diploma says I am. I went to a "better" blob after that for 40 years. While I know my ISP doesn't resolve within police raiding distance, 30 miles is close enough for a project mapping a galaxy :) Travis, it looks like you have a cluster of fans in the US and Europe, but the penguins on the ice down south clearly have no interest. Perhaps a few astronomy classes for the birds may be in order. One must always look for the "next" thing to accomplish :) In any event you've done well. ID: 59007 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Zoffix Znet Send message Joined: 22 Jan 13 Posts: 10 Credit: 6,268,662 RAC: 0	Message 59008 - Posted: 21 Jun 2013, 0:59:30 UTC This is really cool to see :) Thanks for posting. Even some from Nigeria! Awesome! I'm myself from the blob in Canada, Ontario :) ID: 59008 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

JLConawayII Send message Joined: 27 Apr 10 Posts: 35 Credit: 90,828,595 RAC: 0	Message 59009 - Posted: 21 Jun 2013, 3:03:38 UTC Considering their absurd population, I really don't feel that India is pulling their weight. ID: 59009 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

ritterm Send message Joined: 16 Jun 08 Posts: 93 Credit: 366,882,323 RAC: 0	Message 59010 - Posted: 21 Jun 2013, 3:21:37 UTC Excellent, Travis. Thanks! Very cool to see blue in Iceland, the northern reaches of Scandinavia, Mauritius (or Reunion?), Sri Lanka, Tasmania. Awesome. I'm pretty sure I'm that blue dot in the mid-Atlantic coast of the US. No... No, not that one... No. A little to the north... No. More to the east... No... <sigh> ID: 59010 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Chilean Send message Joined: 22 Jun 10 Posts: 2 Credit: 29,781,532 RAC: 0	Message 59017 - Posted: 21 Jun 2013, 13:33:42 UTC Last modified: 21 Jun 2013, 13:34:10 UTC I believe I'm the southernmost dot in Chile. ID: 59017 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

HassanShebli Send message Joined: 2 Oct 10 Posts: 74 Credit: 18,362,557 RAC: 0	Message 59044 - Posted: 22 Jun 2013, 22:01:04 UTC Last modified: 22 Jun 2013, 22:03:21 UTC Why I am not on the map :( Aleppo-Syria ID: 59044 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Matthew Volunteer moderator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 6 May 09 Posts: 217 Credit: 6,856,375 RAC: 0	Message 59073 - Posted: 24 Jun 2013, 11:59:40 UTC - in response to Message 59044. Why I am not on the map :( Aleppo-Syria I believe the map is of 10,000 randomly-selected users who have recently returned results. It would be cool to see this map with all active users included - and maybe a version with every registered user, ever... ID: 59073 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Travis Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 30 Aug 07 Posts: 2046 Credit: 26,480 RAC: 0	Message 59125 - Posted: 26 Jun 2013, 20:39:03 UTC - in response to Message 59044. Last modified: 26 Jun 2013, 20:39:43 UTC Why I am not on the map :( Aleppo-Syria The map was generated from external IP addresses with successful geo-IP address lookups. Chances are your IP didn't have a latitude/longitude in the database we were using. We were using: http://www.hostip.info/ Mainly because it was free. If anyone has any suggestions for a better lookup database that we could use I'd be happy to regenerate better maps. :) So the maps aren't exhaustive by any means. ID: 59125 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote