[Imc-tech] map of all IMCs:

[Sascha Meinrath]

thought this might interest folks.  the Global Indymedia Network is still
looking for someone to refine the mapping process:

http://volunteer.dega.indypgh.org/volunteer.indy/code/output/start.htm

more info:

| I've already whipped something together in python, you can download the
| code and take a look at the output (which ain't quite finished) here:
|
| http://volunteer.dega.indypgh.org/volunteer.indy/code/
| http://volunteer.dega.indypgh.org/volunteer.indy/code/output/

|>i don't remember who planned to implement it but i remember somebody
|>wanted to include a world map which displays the coordinates of an IMCs
|>on either the contact database itself or on the global indymedia.org
|>website.
|>
|>Here's a simple way to do so using PHP with gdlib extension and the GD
|>binaries:
|>http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/moss20031023.php3
|>
|>by tweaking this script a little bit it should be possible to display
|>all IMCs on this world map as a dot and link these dots up to the
|>corresponding website by means of an image map.

does this project interest anyone?

--sascha