Thank you for your email. It seems as though you are getting rave reviews from the list. I am sure that if you want to make this really neat, try creating a simple web login that allows for you to create an account using the email address, then update your location so that it can be a little more accurate.
As stated in some of the posts, a lot of times your lat/long service may not be entirely right as it is basing the lat/long off the mail carrier, not necessarily the location of the user. J.R. PS -- Listers, sorry I didn't CC the list on my first correspondence. Here it is with her answers. GREAT JOB CLAIRE & COMPANY! -----Original Message----- From: Claire McLister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 6:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Map of MySQL Users We use the origin IP and then convert it to a latitude/longitude using a commercial service. There are several services available these days to do this conversion. We use any email posted to the list for which we can get a decent IP value. It could be from a registered MySQL user or not. Even a single post should get you on the map. The only thing is a special email address needs to be added to the list so that we can get location information from each email. Thanks for your feedback. Yes, I think adding a geographical dimension to the email lists brings up interesting possibilities. Let me know if you want to see maps of other email lists. Claire On Oct 24, 2005, at 3:05 PM, J.R. Bullington wrote: > Couple of questions for you -- > > What are you using to keep pinpoint the origin of the submitted emails? > PING, TRACERT, WHOIS off the domain names? > > Are you only doing original posts, or original & replies? > Do they need to be registered users of mySQL or just post to the list? > Do you have to post / reply a minimum number of times to be > "noticed"/added onto the list? > > -- Now back to the original topic -- > > The popup JS is great (love the filter / search feature). > It's a great system and, if used, I think it will bring MySQL users > together and help in creating site/regional specific MySQL > lists/conferences. > > > Thanks for listening! > > J.R. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Claire McLister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 5:19 PM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Map of MySQL Users > > Hi, > > We've developed an automatic email mapping capability from Google > Maps API. > > To try it out, we mapped origins of emails to this group from > October > 3 through October 14th. > > The result of this map is at: > http://www.zeesource.net/maps/map.do?group=460 > > Would like to hear what you think of it. > > Best wishes > > Claire > > -- > Claire McLister [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 1684 Nightingale Avenue Suite 201 > Sunnyvale, CA 94087 408-733-2737(fax) > > http://www.zeemaps.com > > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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