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Send message Joined: 30 Aug 07 Posts: 2046 Credit: 26,480 RAC: 0 |
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! |
Send message Joined: 22 Mar 09 Posts: 99 Credit: 503,422,495 RAC: 0 |
nice! |
Send message Joined: 9 Nov 08 Posts: 44 Credit: 128,043,914 RAC: 0 |
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. |
Send message Joined: 22 Jan 13 Posts: 10 Credit: 6,268,662 RAC: 0 |
This is really cool to see :) Thanks for posting. Even some from Nigeria! Awesome! I'm myself from the blob in Canada, Ontario :) |
Send message Joined: 27 Apr 10 Posts: 35 Credit: 90,828,595 RAC: 0 |
Considering their absurd population, I really don't feel that India is pulling their weight. |
Send message Joined: 16 Jun 08 Posts: 93 Credit: 366,882,323 RAC: 0 |
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> |
Send message Joined: 22 Jun 10 Posts: 2 Credit: 29,781,532 RAC: 0 |
I believe I'm the southernmost dot in Chile. |
Send message Joined: 2 Oct 10 Posts: 74 Credit: 18,362,557 RAC: 0 |
Why I am not on the map :( Aleppo-Syria |
Send message Joined: 6 May 09 Posts: 217 Credit: 6,856,375 RAC: 0 |
Why I am not on the map :( 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... |
Send message Joined: 30 Aug 07 Posts: 2046 Credit: 26,480 RAC: 0 |
Why I am not on the map :( 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. |
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