Re: map of member locations

From: Andy Levy (andylevy@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 19:23:00 EDT


Bravenet (the site doing my web page's counter) just released a map
service (free) for their members. I tried out their sample in Mozilla
and was not terribly impressed.

Jason Bleazard wrote:
>
> I remember something similar I saw a while ago. The Debian developers
> have an automatically generated map that shows their locations. It looks
> like the input file is just a text file with coordinates. That shouldn't
> be *too* difficult to generate automatically, but again, who has time to
> write the script?
>
> Here's their info:
>
> http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.loc
>
> They also used it to figure out where would be the most central location
> for a conference.
>
> http://people.debian.org/~edward/average/
>
> I've often wondered where the center of the DML membership is (i.e. if
> there are enough members in Texas that the center is someplace really far
> south of the geographic center of the continent).
>

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