On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Jono Bacon <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/12/2009 03:44 PM, NICK VERBECK wrote: >> This is just an idea. but what if you feed off the Launchpad API of >> each LoCo and populate the map based of where the majority of members >> are. i.e. If you see that the majority of the members or in a >> State/Country then you can assume the LoCo covers the country. If the >> majority are just in 1 city/metroplex then you can assume they cover >> just that city(s). >> >> I'm not sure if the Launchpad API supports this, or if those are safe >> assumptions to make. > A few years ago we talked of having "heat graphs" showing density of > Ubuntu users in different parts of the world. This could be partially > done using LP, but I am not sure how many people have entered geographic > information. > > We could potentially do this on country/state-wide basis based upon > mailing list numbers though. :) > > Jono > > -- > Jono Bacon > Ubuntu Community Manager > jono(at)ubuntu(dot)com > www.ubuntu.com / www.jonobacon.org > > > > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > Hi Jono, I have a similar idea some time ago and for time reasons it never saw the light.
I have experience working with the google maps API, I own a site wich uses it a lot and I'm used to work with the api (the site is www.peligroalvolante.com. I'm sorry it's in spanish) And I have some nice ideas apart than using it just as a heat map: It would be great to mark in a map: - Loco meetings - Release parties - shops selling hardware with ubuntu preinstalled - places where you can get support - your vacation pictures with ubuntu (yeah, I take ubuntu CDs to my vacations and take some pictures with the mountains or the sea...) we can even make contest about that. - whatever which is Ubuntu related. It would be more like a Ubuntu geographical show-off than just a cold heatmap. I can offer myself to write a spec, discuss it and implement it, and of course I can work with whoever is willing to help in the idea Regards, Lipe -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
