[yashicaman]

My zip code is for a small city in Pennsylviana. There are about 14 to 15K people here. It'd be cool to be on the map. And given that my handle is yashicaman, who knows who I am. My house is protected by big dogs, little viscious children, and a killer goldfish (it ate my frog!). Let's do a map (btw, I'm fascinated by GIS stuff and teach a course in crime mapping).

Cheers!

 

[taylor]

I'd be totally down for it. I'm within a few blocks of
40.75° N, 74.03° W

Do we even have to link usernames to locations? If people are really concerned, they could just make their info anonymous, but it would help to get a general idea of where the densest head-fier populations are.

 

[omegaman]

Here's something similar that started last year.

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f11/head-fi-map-242550/

 

[apatN]

Well, I'm in as well as long as people don't want me to give my exact location. Maybe the biggest city near you?

 

[flashnolan]

Quote:

Originally Posted by apatN /img/forum/go_quote.gif My first idea was yeah cool. Though people can easily check what gear you have at what location. Too risky and I don't think we should allow it.

All me to paraphrase him: "He pities the foo that share their information!"

 

[progo]

Why Google Earth? Too troublesome to install some program when you can have a web based app. Doesn't Google Maps feature a thing like this?

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by omegaman /img/forum/go_quote.gif Here's something similar that started last year. http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f11/head-fi-map-242550/

Yeah, thats the one I mentioned above. Not all that popular though..

 

[acidbasement]

Quote:

Originally Posted by progo /img/forum/go_quote.gif Why Google Earth? Too troublesome to install some program when you can have a web based app. Doesn't Google Maps feature a thing like this?

Yup! KML files can be displayed in either Google Earth or Google Maps. It is easy to set up.

If there is interest from our admins, I would be glad to help set up a KML file that you could customize with head-fi data.

 

[acidbasement]

Quote:

Originally Posted by apatN /img/forum/go_quote.gif Well, I'm in as well as long as people don't want me to give my exact location. Maybe the biggest city near you?

With lat/long coordinates, you could be as truthful as you want to be.

 

[paaj]

it would even be cool just to see where the general hf-population is more dense, like the satelite night-shots of europe.

but i guess there are not really that much headfiers

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by paaj /img/forum/go_quote.gif it would even be cool just to see where the general hf-population is more dense, like the satelite night-shots of europe. http://www.novaspace.com/POSTERS/PHOTO/Europe.jpeg but i guess there are not really that much headfiers

In some parts of the US maybe, but certainly not in Europe.

 

[paaj]

we need to spread the headphonevirus just so the map will look like that