Quoting JBilderback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Just a brain phart but i wonder if any of the online
map
> providers offer world maps and have some sort of
option for
> inserting user data?
>
Well, this is a pretty popular application in the GIS
world. And GIS is moving to web-based interfaces. We
just did a project for a GIS company\'s web server. So I
can make some requests and see if there\'s any open code
out there to get this started.
Quoting Stephen:
> I\'m not quite sure how you would present the data
though. It seems to me
> that most sites have been visited by most countries
(we have been visited by
> 191 out of the 254 domains so far) so just a yes/no
indicator wouldn\'t be
> much use. Probably you would have to colour countries
according to amount of
> usage or something. Or use bigger dots for busy
countries, but that\'s a bit
> misleading because European countries are all crammed
together whereas
> African ones are all spread out.
In general charting this type of data is often done with
different size dots, different shades of color (think
precipitation maps in your atlas), or cluster maps (dots
across the region; more dense == more traffic). You
could also adjust it to provide
per-Internet-enabled-capita mapping so that Germany and
Tanzania have relative shading that makes sense. (But
this requries outside statistics and might be
excessive.)
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
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