On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
>
> Ok, this is slightly offtopic, but here goes.
>
> My favorite analog report is the domain report -- I'm continually
> impressed how easy it is for people all over the world to
> retrieve information.
>
> Now, what would be really, really cool, is to plot the domain
> report on world map. For example, if there was a .uk in the domain
> report, I'd like to see the United Kingdom either with a little
> star over it, or perhaps shaded a special colour.
>
> This would be a fun indicator on how widely (geographically)
> a web site has been viewed.
>
> Now, that's probably out of scope for an analog feature request,
> but maybe people can point me towards a program that can take an
> analog domain report and produce such a map. Clearly I can't be the first
> person to think of such a thing. Any tips are appreciated -- being a
> programmer, I can probably write it myself, but would like to
> start from as an advanced a base as possible.
>
I don't know of one. It would be a very nice idea though -- of course I'd
happily add it to the Helper Applications page!
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.
--
Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, England
"8th March 2000. National No Smoking Day. Ash Wednesday." (On a calendar)
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