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mnmonte writes "Yesterday morning Opte.org announced that they have successfully mapped the entire internet. They are currently compiling a LGL map for all to see. Currently they have a LGL map that has 'over 5 million edges and has an estimated 50 million hop count'. Also only took them 252.68 hours to complete."
... I'll be starting to produce maps of IP addresses to latitude/longitude by IP address soon... Been sourcing the data.(See the sig.)
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
Wouldn't it be kinda scary if your IP told people where to find you?
Umm... this has been possible for quite a while: See Geobutton: http://www.geobutton.com/IpLocator.htm
Torrent of their images, data, VRML, etc.
"[A] high IQ is like a Jeep; you will still get stuck, just farther from help!" --Just d' FAQs, c.g.a
So when are one of us nerds going to invent a better way to tell what geographical location is associated with what IP/URL?"
Geo::IP [cpan.org] is per-country, or per-city if you pay for it and the city's in america.
Google did something using zip-codes it found on websites to identify a country. That's useful, because the location of your webserver has sod-all relevance to the location of anybody using it, whereas zip codes are the company address. Actually it wasn't google, but someone winning a google competition.
If someone wanted to use the WHOIS data, they all have zipcodes too, although you'd have to ask nanog'rs where to get the full list of domain-registrar addresses. (or ask spammers...)
There should be a UK post-code database somewhere, which has geographic regions. It's rather expensive though, especially given that the public paid for it to be compiled.
Even if all you can find is a city name on someone's website, you can compare that against a public-domain database of all cities in the world [xplanet.sourceforge.net], to get a location. If you can tell the difference between namesake towns, that is. I'm in London but not in Canada.
Someone had an extension to Geo::IP, where they were asking website visitors to volunteer their approximate locations, then using that to map end-users.
And of course, many US servers have their lat/long in a database somewhere for precisely this sort of mapping.
I'm working on a mirror of the pretty pictures. It's available at http://leela.lasthome.net/maps/.
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The large map is available here.
Douglas P. Price
Just an idea, maybe you could use Wikipedia's lists of locations, such as its list of Flemish municipalities instead of letting users choose them by themselves.
Also, how do you handle ISP's with dynamic IP's? Especially with dial-up, the same IP can be in totally different locations on different times.
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By "domain" you are referring to the world wide web. Which consists of webpages (and other content such as images, sound, ...) and which are linked by hyperlinks.
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What they have scanned is the internet.
Which consists of computers (or better: interfaces) who are distincted by an IP-address and are linked by physical means. I.e. fiber, utp, sattelite,
I said with so much certainity mainly because earlier research into the topology of the Web, by Barabasi et al had already suggested that it is a so-called scale-free network (my post in the earlier story on this had more references), which, arguably, are fractals.
More than mere navel gazing.
Read the FAQ, I do map RFC1918 stuff that is used to route Internet packets. However, I am not mapping PRIVATE networks that are not part of the Internet. We all know that private networks are huge as well. So one can assume that on the edge of every node on my maps, there exists a potential huge cluster of networks... big image. If I had enough cpu and memory I would play with that a little. -Barrett (opte guy)