I think it would be fun to have a map that shows where the various people in the community are located on the planet.
Stefano was already working on something for that, if I recall correctly. You might want to check.
Yeah, I was starting something like that but stopped due to lack of time and intensive travelling. Now I'm back on the starting point (used to call it 'home', but it doesn't feel semantically meaningful to me anymore) but still lack of time.
One lesson I learned from Agora is that there is a lot of metadata that can be extracted from data.
In this case, instead of forcing people to submit their geo-locations, I was planning on harvesting the IP addresses of their connections to cvs.apache.org and then look them up using GeoIP and show those.
It won't be as precise, but for sure there will be much more data and will be more statistically significant... also because your dot moves with your cvs access :)
If I had to do it, I would do it as transparent as possible, otherwise lazy butts (me, for example) won't update their geolocations and the whole thing will lag behind pretty soon.
For map generation, it shouldn't be that hard.... maybe borrow some xearth routines.
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