Re: [users@httpd] Google Map of Apache users active on this list (OT)

Claire McLister <mclister@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 4 Nov 2005 06:14:49 -0800

Thanks. We have received several reports of exact location hits and 

several that say that the markers were way off. So, it seems this is 

still very in-accurate (which in a way is good for people who are 

concerned about privacy issues). The only thing that we may be able to 

trust is the country location.

For now, as Bill pointed out, it looks like a way of showing the reach 

of Open Source projects.  Specially interesting might be when we 

compare several projects, e.g., MySQL vs. Postgresql, Python vs. PERL, 

etc.

On Nov 4, 2005, at 2:04 AM, Nick Kew wrote:

On Thursday 03 November 2005 23:39, Claire McLister wrote:

  We've been working with Google Maps to see if we can automatically 

map

origins of emails to groups.

FWIW, it has me in completely the wrong part of the country, in an 

area that

is not my address, nor my company's registered address, nor my ISP's 

address,

nor even the datacentre where the publically-visible equipment 

(servers)

lives.  Nor, I should add, an area that has ever been any of the above,
so it's not simply old information.

But at least it puts me in the right country, which is arguably a step 

in the

right direction from when google mapped me to Moscow!

--
Nick Kew

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