In the vein of keeping it updated, it will be difficult if people move. I’ll be moving after I graduate at the end of this year, and the Knoxville entry will be gone.
Sadly, it doesn’t look like there’s any chance of a TN meetup starting anytime soon anyway...
Would there be a way to get the “location” information people put into their profiles automatically parsed into a Google map like this?
.>In the vein of keeping it updated, it will be difficult if people move. I’ll be moving after I graduate at the end of this year, and the Knoxville entry will be gone.
Send me a message when you move, and I will update your dot.
Would there be a way to get the “location” information people put into their profiles automatically parsed into a Google map like this?
I’m sure there is, but I can’t do it. If there are any GIS people here, I bet they have/know of a program that can do it.
Google maps disappointed me in that it doesn’t have an option to jitter the data points at all. (but it’s free! so....) There are some places that have people right on top of each other (like New York or CA), and you can’t tell until you zoom pretty far in on them. I’m sure someone here knows of a better tool, if they’d like to volunteer.
Also...Thank you to whichever mod fixed the link in my post. Much appreciated!
I know of several programs that can query a database in real time (eg, Tableau), but am not aware of any free versions. Given a database of US zipcodes and their coordinates and a database of LW poll responses, I’m sure it would be trivial for me to write a program that makes a list of occupied zipcodes, their locations, and how many people are at each one. Presumably then it would be possible to draw a map or feed the data to Google Maps...I’m not much of a hand at web stuff so I’m not sure about that.
You can make feed Google Maps a set of latitude/longitude points trivially using KML. Just type the URL of your KML file into the search field on google maps, and it’ll show up.
In the vein of keeping it updated, it will be difficult if people move. I’ll be moving after I graduate at the end of this year, and the Knoxville entry will be gone.
Sadly, it doesn’t look like there’s any chance of a TN meetup starting anytime soon anyway...
Would there be a way to get the “location” information people put into their profiles automatically parsed into a Google map like this?
.>In the vein of keeping it updated, it will be difficult if people move. I’ll be moving after I graduate at the end of this year, and the Knoxville entry will be gone.
Send me a message when you move, and I will update your dot.
I’m sure there is, but I can’t do it. If there are any GIS people here, I bet they have/know of a program that can do it.
Google maps disappointed me in that it doesn’t have an option to jitter the data points at all. (but it’s free! so....) There are some places that have people right on top of each other (like New York or CA), and you can’t tell until you zoom pretty far in on them. I’m sure someone here knows of a better tool, if they’d like to volunteer.
Also...Thank you to whichever mod fixed the link in my post. Much appreciated!
I know of several programs that can query a database in real time (eg, Tableau), but am not aware of any free versions. Given a database of US zipcodes and their coordinates and a database of LW poll responses, I’m sure it would be trivial for me to write a program that makes a list of occupied zipcodes, their locations, and how many people are at each one. Presumably then it would be possible to draw a map or feed the data to Google Maps...I’m not much of a hand at web stuff so I’m not sure about that.
You can make feed Google Maps a set of latitude/longitude points trivially using KML. Just type the URL of your KML file into the search field on google maps, and it’ll show up.
To geocode zip codes (convert them to lat/lon pairs), you can hit http://geocoder.us/service/csv/geocode?zip=95472