Re: Developers by country (updated)
On 2 Nov 2001, at 11:15, Alexander List wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Edward Betts wrote:
>
> > > Great! Do you plan to publish the code that produces
> > > these nice images?
> > Sure, will do.
>
> Great, we will praise you as the Debian cartographer and
> prolly one of the first of taking the approach of showing a
> "web of trust" (geo)graphically. Have you thought about
> writing some paper about this? IMHO your approach is very
> interesting to promote the web of trust idea in general.
>
> > > This site didn't know some cities over here in Europe
> > Really, I have had no problems with it (I am in Europe),
> > can you give me some examples?
>
> Yes, of course: Try Schlins (~2000 inhabitants, Austria),
> AFAIK nobody important comes from there (only me...).
>
> But if you take Röcken in Germany (you might have to enter
> it as Rocken in the query, sigh...), that's the birthplace
> of Friedrich Nietzsche
> http://www.virtusens.de/walther/roecken_e.htm, and not
> knowing that is definitely unforgivable ;-).
I usually rip Lat/Long from mapblast.com
Just find the city (they know Röcken if we're talking
about Röcken near Leipzig ;-) You find pretty precise
(down to street level) coordinates in the image URL.
Cheers,
Marcel
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