Where in the World are GG'ers from?

#1 The map is sweet... I could look at it for hours on end! Any chance of getting a much larger version?

#2 I was thinking the same... "I wish I could zoom on this thing".

#3 Oh, that's a great little addition ... puts the whole thing into perspective as well!

#4 I wish it was updated in real-time. I am basically manually grabing a snapshot from our external site tracking service ...it's written in flash so there is not a good chance of automating it. And we get enough traffic (2 Million pages/month and growing) that tracking stats on our own servers was consuming too many resources.

@Jemery: Yes it does put the Torque and this community in perspecitve doesn't it. Adds new meaning to the first IGC slogan "World Domination through Collaboration".

#5 Hey, I see me! Representing sunny Sanford Florida.

#6 Aha, so it's based on who is visiting the site? I figured it was based on the registered users profiles... ah well.

#7 I hope im not the only person on the perth - australia dot :)

#8 I think they have like 100,000 registered users or more so it'd be a really dense map!

#9 What do the big dots mean? More people?

#10 Nearest dot on that map to me, is like 625 miles away... ;)

#11 This is Cool! I can see my little dot. Looks like many of the dots overlap, so there is probably more dots on there that you can't see because they overlap. And also, are the stats being grabbed from a cookie on the site that gets the users specific location, or is it wherever the ISP is?

#12 Great idea, Rick! I'm the dot just South of you folks, in the Golden State's S.F. Bay area, waving out in the Sun!

Another hobby of mine is long distance sideBand CB radio operating[27.385-ch38's sideband]. I have maps just like that with pins placed for an 'offical' contact station; which usually consists of Call #, Name, and geographic location. Globally s'kipping' signals off the atomosphere in RealTime, is kinda cool. TeamSpeak, et al. are the Web equilivent[well, and Rick's map, :)].

#13 Each dot is not one single user but a grouping of visitors from a location... and the size of the dot grows with each visitor within that location

#14 Very cool!

#15 What, no Greenland love? :D

#16 You do realize that people will make scripts to keep refreshing the page to get their circle bigger?

;)

-Josh Ritter
Prairie Games

#17 It's not the size of your dot that matters, it's what you do with your dot.

#18 And here I was going to load up a list of a few thousand anonymous proxies set to rotate every second then browse every page in the site.

#19 I think my dot is misplaced... Fairbanks Alaska here - closest dot to me is Anchorage Alaska.

I guess my ISP was used for the dotting, as it's based out of Anchorage.

#20 Hey! I'm not there :( hehe