vega.rd.no — A while ago I had an idea. What if I were to try to geographically locate all the visitors to my website, and tag their locations on a map? Using Google Maps, Ajax, MySQL and some PHP, it came together quite nicely.
May 7, 2006 View in Crawl 4
jasonprussellMay 7, 2006
Interesting article. There is a plugin for Mint (www.haveamint.com) called GeoMint (<a class="user" href="http://www.stopbeingcarbon.com/geomint)">http://www.stopbeingcarbon.com/geomint)</a> which does the same thing.
skytimelapseMay 8, 2006
Took me about two minutes to complete. I actually may cancel my nextstat account as all that matters to me is count and location. awesome.
kordlessMay 8, 2006
Yes, Google Analytics puts hits on a map, but it's not a Google Map, and it's not updated in real time. GA is also currently on an invite only basis - i.e. you have to sign up and wait for them to invite you to use the service. When you do get invited, you have to install code on your site that tracks your visitors - on any pages that you want to track.
cleaner416May 8, 2006
Big deal. Lots of people have done this for a long time. DJ Jolene (www.djjolene.com) used to do it with listeners to her shoutcast server streams in '02 (lookup triplebluestamp.com in the wayback machine.)
armedgeekMay 9, 2006
Agreed. At least in the geek world, it becomes suprising when you run across someone who doesn't have some sort of website.
n1koMay 15, 2006
yeah there is an article about that over here: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/programming/Site_Metrics_Showdown_-_Mint_vs_Google_Analytics_vs_All">http://digg.com/programming/Site_Metrics_Showdown_-_Mint_vs_Google_Analytics_vs_All</a>
solaris1201Aug 12, 2006
There is a Joomla module which displays recent visitors to the website via Google Maps. It's here <a class="user" href="http://www.freelance-park.com/joomla">http://www.freelance-park.com/joomla</a>
sanjananb99Jan 11, 2011
Took me about two minutes to complete
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