In as well.
not the first one in my state,but within a 250km/155mile radius.

I'm pretty new to FlyerTalk but I thought I'd give this a try. I'm in there now, and it looks like there are a couple of other folks within walking distance. Too bad everyone isn't in it! It would be fascinating to see the true layout.

Tokyo is now represented on the map too.

Mike

Orlando is now here.

Isn't there some way to do the map semi-automatically using the primary TCP/IP address of registrants (I know there are services that attempt to map TCP/IP addresses to actual physical locations, plus or minus a few miles). Maybe it wouldn't work for everyone but it ought to pick up another few thousand people.

They could be added anonymously until they agreed to have their location posted publicly, but it would give folks a better sense of the geographical spread of FTers.

Two considerations I guess; is it possible, and would you want it. I think it's impractical and probably not desirable. But that hasn't stopped many an idea, not least as I could be wrong

It's probably possible with a chunk of effort. First you need an IP address for each FT account. The site admin could probably collect that if they ignored the privacy concerns. You'd want account email address too if it wasn't anonymous, otherwise people would not be able to remove or change their own settings.

There are public databases that will make a reasonable guess on where someone is from their IP address. Here's an example lookup site: http://www.seomoz.org/ip2loc/ip2loc.php

It will say it doesn't know sometimes, and it will get it right sometimes. Still, I guess it would be correct 80+% of the time that it offers an opinion.

After that you need to inject that into frappr, that would involve writing a script or getting someone to spend days putting it in one at a time.

As to wanting it. Well - i think a *seperate* map of just the IP addresses everyone came from would be. So one person who logs in a lot from different IP addresses, maybe his ISP changes his DSL IP address every day, would appear the same as many people who log in once each. But still fun.

Sorry if I'm down on the suggestion. The idea of mapping from IP address is a very cool one in general. I may steal that at some point if you don't mind. But I'm not sure it's practical here.

I guess I'm the second PHX area FT'er on this map.

I like it!

Well, I just put New London, CT on map

Done!

I'm in, expanding the map to eastern Washington.

Third FTer in Wisconsin (I know, hard to believe) This is great!

First in Belgium!

added myself!

Those of you interested in the possibilities of Google Maps, click on my sig below - it shows where I am (approximately) in real time (approximately). I am running an application called Celltrack on my mobile phone.

#2 in CLT and #3 in NC.
surprised there isn't anyone in RDU.

Gr�ezi, from now on Switzerland is part of this great map!