Check out

http://plewylli.sdf-eu.org

It's the same thing for our PA UNIX system.

Uses mapserver, and the www.nima.mil database for lat/lon finding (they 
have over 3 million locations in the world!).

Sounds fun

P

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 09:00:52PM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> (I waffled whether this should go on -advocacy or -users...)
> 
> It occurred to me that it would be nice to have a database of locations
> for NetBSD users.  (E.g., I really don't know if there are any users
> in Houston, other than myself...last I asked, the closest anyone
> volunteered was Baytown, and another up in, I think, Dallas---or maybe
> Austin?)
> 
> I'd like to suggest a database be publicly maintained with the following
> pieces of information:
> 
> date-of-submission, count, longitude, lattitude, optional-email, optional-name
> 
> (Submissions more than a certain age would be rolled out, so one old entries
> would automatically be purged.  If an email contact is provided, the person
> could be queried a week before the entry expires to see if it should be
> kept/removed/updated.)
> 
> "Count" is the number of machines with NetBSD installed.
> 
> 
> One way to get your current longitude/lattitude is to go to:
> 
>   http://www.mapsonus.com/
> 
> ...and under "General Options" turn on display of long./latt.  You may
> have to click on the map to get coordinate data (for the center of
> the map).
> 
> (The first number should be your longitude, the second your lattitude...)
> 
> 
> Why would this be nice?  So that the database could be massaged into
> something that xworld could use, say, so you could look and see how
> dense the NetBSD users were in your area of the world.
> 
> The email & name wouldn't be essential, if the person didn't want to provide
> it.  (Alternatively, "installed machines" might be interesting, perhaps with
> a count of installed machines (so one location is given...)
> 
> 
> Like I said, it's a silly waste of bits (see subject line), but I thought
> that I'd see anyone else liked the idea, and whether there might already
> be something similar.  (I know that someone has/had a list of NetBSD
> *developers* along these lines...)
> 
> If no such thing exists, would there be interest in it (people willing
> to give such info, and people interested in using it)?  Or am I just
> being silly?  (^&
> 
> 
> -- 
>   "I probably don't know what I'm talking about."  http://www.olib.org/~rkr/

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