[TriLUG] IP Addresses and Geography...

[Robert Dale]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Kevin Hunter <hunteke at earlham.edu> wrote:
> At 1:21a -0400 on Fri, 12 Jul 2008, Maxwell Spangler wrote:

>> Second, it'd make an awfully interesting demo to watch a map connect my
>> laptop to points on a world map based on the IPs I interact with.
>> Anyone know of such a thing?
>
> There is xtraceroute, but that's just a glorified ping/traceroute.  I'd
> be curious for something like this as well.  I could see this being
> well-used by a
>
>  * sales department
>  * marketing department
>  * security department
>
> Visualization is an awesome tool that I think is under utilized and
> under appreciated in a lot of what we do as computer
> professionals/students/hobbyists.

You could create something like Glassfish's usage map[1] with a mashup
of google maps[2] and geoip[3]

[1] http://beta.glassfish.java.net:81/maps/
[2] http://code.google.com/apis/maps/
[3] http://www.maxmind.com/app/api

-- 
Robert Dale