I thought it would be interesting to see how the distribution of members here are situated in the U.S. or abroad. Any moderators feel like taking this up? Maybe a map of how many members are in each state. I'm not suggesting big-brother-mapping to your house or apartment, but it would be interesting to see the distribution of members in states/countries.

I love topo maps. I love maps, in general. I like graphs, too. They let me see a whole bunch of information at once.

Just thought this would be fun, if it's possible.

Edit: Maybe not even a map, but a list of # of members by state/country.

KV NOTE: (Sorry for the edit)

Link to map HERE: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=21 ... 7,13.31543

KV NOTE part 2
This is now getting updated again. Apologies to everyone, life happens.

It looks like this.

The PNW is too small on that map, Simmer.

And MO might be too large...

ErikO wrote:The PNW is too small on that map, Simmer.

And MO might be too large...

I may be biased, but Simmer's map looks pretty accurate from where I'm standing.

Xela

I still have bad dreams of driving from the top of the Panhandle to Eagle Pass in 1963. That map is spot on.

I've done something similar on a motorcycle forum. We can do an unlisted google map with whatever degree of location the user wants.

Example:

KVoimakas, Dickinson County, Mi
and the little pushpin would be in the middle of the county.

Or we could do kestrel9000 (though he doesn't visit much) and just have VT with the pushpin in the middle of the state.

Something similar to this: http://goo.gl/maps/TkAo

We just add more people as they put their location in this thread.

Just looked at my place on Earth 3D, love those big trees in my yard, can see very little of the ground.

This isn't exactly the same thing but I did this a couple of months ago for something unrelated. Its a map of the last 200 visitors that visited the main website over one day. We get ~200-500 people visits to the main website per day (~100-300 unique visitors). Like I said, this isn't entirely the same thing but I think you will find the distribution very similar. We have members from all over the country.

mark wrote:

lgc visitor map.jpg

This isn't exactly the same thing but I did this a couple of months ago for something unrelated. Its a map of the last 200 visitors that visited the main website over one day. We get ~200-500 people visits to the main website per day (~100-300 unique visitors). Like I said, this isn't entirely the same thing but I think you will find the distribution very similar. We have members from all over the country.

WTF is wrong with Utah, Montana and South Dakota?

mark wrote:

lgc visitor map.jpg

This isn't exactly the same thing but I did this a couple of months ago for something unrelated. Its a map of the last 200 visitors that visited the main website over one day. We get ~200-500 people visits to the main website per day (~100-300 unique visitors). Like I said, this isn't entirely the same thing but I think you will find the distribution very similar. We have members from all over the country.

I know who that one pushpin in the UP is from.

ErikO wrote:

mark wrote:

lgc visitor map.jpg

This isn't exactly the same thing but I did this a couple of months ago for something unrelated. Its a map of the last 200 visitors that visited the main website over one day. We get ~200-500 people visits to the main website per day (~100-300 unique visitors). Like I said, this isn't entirely the same thing but I think you will find the distribution very similar. We have members from all over the country.

WTF is wrong with Utah, Montana and South Dakota?

No one actually lives there.

mark wrote:

ErikO wrote: WTF is wrong with Utah, Montana and South Dakota?

No one actually lives there.

Nah, their tubes were broken that day.

Radio station W3VET.

The FCC has my coordinates. Public record


OTOH

White Pages - for your neighborhood
Go to the web site below and put in your address. You will get satellite picture showing the name, address and phone number of EVERYONE in your immediate area.

http://neighbors.whitepages.com

GuitarsandGuns wrote:White Pages - for your neighborhood
Go to the web site below and put in your address. You will get satellite picture showing the name, address and phone number of EVERYONE in your immediate area.

http://neighbors.whitepages.com

Great way to see which houses nearby are uninhabited. Also, our lack of a landline is not a bad thing.

irishman wrote:Litchfield Illinois.

Haha, I know his actual, super secret address.

Ok, I'm going to delete posts of people I already added, just to make things a bit easier on me.

I added myself,I think it took but if it didn't and you need info to put it on there let me know

Vodkin wrote:I added myself,I think it took but if it didn't and you need info to put it on there let me know

It didn't. I'm the only one with permissions to edit and save it.

Simmer down wrote:

members by state.png

It looks like this.

Kinda odd, since everybody (everybody from Tennessee anyway) knows Texas is a large suburb of Tennessee!

Go ahead and add me. You could also add people based on the locations in their profiles if one of the admins gives you the list.

CharonPDX wrote:Go ahead and add me. You could also add people based on the locations in their profiles if one of the admins gives you the list.

I need your location.

I'm also not adding anyone who doesn't post in here. Some people don't want their location info up on the map.

Please put me down for Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, TX, same as Simmer Down.

Which begs the question, how will it work if more than one person live at one area/location? I'm thinking a nice cluster will start showing on the map?

Xela

Xela wrote:Please put me down for Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, TX, same as Simmer Down.

Which begs the question, how will it work if more than one person live at one area/location? I'm thinking a nice cluster will start showing on the map?

Xela

The clutter will un-clutter itself when you start to zoom in into a particular region. The clusters are cool cause you can see where the concentration of members are. This would serve the leadership will when planning future events.

Kv, PDX is the airport code for Portland, Or.