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I started this map for la.pm - I'd be happy to do it for phl.pm
too... read on...
-R (lost, somewhere near the wrong ocean.)
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From: Robert Spier <rspier@pobox.com>
To: list@la.pm.org
Subject: Re: LA.pm: la.pm map
It's no fun unless we get lots of points on the map. Here's
the first cut, no tweaking to make it pretty, or get the
perfect zoom.
Red=Work, Blue=Home
http://newbabe.mengwong.com/~rspier/lapm/map.gif
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:34:21PM -0700, Robert Spier wrote:
|
| I thought it would be neat to see how we (la.pm) is distributed
| geographically around the region. I'm going to do this with a service
| called Tiger, provided by the Census Bureau. [1]
|
| In order to do this, I need to know where everyone lives and works.
| Tiger takes Latitude and Longitude for it's coordinates, so thats what
| I'm asking you provide.
|
| How do you find out where that is?
|
| The easiest way I've found is to go to one of these websites:
|
| http://www.geocode.com/eagle.html-ssi
| or
| http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer/
| (The gazetteer will locate your zip code, which is close enough.)
| or
| Use Yahoo! Maps to find it.
|
| A sample map, I did for a past employer, (after some manual cleanup)
| looks something like this:
| http://www.tarcweb.org/tarcweb/images/nj-nice2.gif
|
| I figure I'll have red dots for "home" and blue dots for "work", or
| something like that. I won't divulge the locations you send me, and
| the resolution of the map will protect your privacy. A single dot
| will cover a large area.
|
| If you send me something like the following, I'll put it into a table,
| and generate a map after I've got a few.
|
| home: 34.186238 N 118.300898 W
| work: 34.171746 N 118.323148 W
|
| -R, curious.
|
|
| Footnotes:
| [1] http://tiger.census.gov/
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