Thank you all for posting your latitude and longitude for my little FOCUS Map project! However, so far I have only had three account created on the FOCUS website with coordinates filled out, and I myself was one of the three. :(
Anyway, here is a little preview of what it looks like now:
Basically when you click on the marker it will reveal a little bit more information about the person. Currently there’s only name and your Gravatar generated from your email address. Btw, Sui — you are not from Singapore are you?
To see it in action, click here. You can use all the Google Maps controls to navigate around. Dots will be added when more accounts get approved with latitude/longitude info filled in. As you can see so far, Taiwan — 2. Singapore — 1.
(For the technical inclined, markers are pulled through via HttpRequest, and backend is implemented as Python CGI with web.py. Somehow it runs very slow on DreamHost.)
No Scott, I’m not from Spore, but I’m here now so might as well.. :] ok, I’ll try to find the lat/long for Ambon :]
good. find it for us sui :) hmm is lina counted as from ambon or surabaya now?
I guess my point is, if people put where they are *currently*, we’ll see dots jam packed in Sydney around the Kingsford area :) And it is always nice to show where everyone is coming from in FOCUS. The same question asked during the orientation week year after year — now we have a way to visualise it :)
Btw, I have just checked the FOCUS map again and we now have 4 dots. Thanks Jackie!
oops i think i put wrong numbers. ended up in the ocean! hahahah
i’ll try again
Chenny,
I didnt know that you are coming from that remote part of Indonesia! Do you have electricity and tape water there? :)
hmm.. i did put the right numbers.. google earth returns lat: 3.42 and long: 128.10 for Ambon. but why do i end up in the ocean?
On my Google Earth Ambon, Indonesia is
lat: -3.663
lng: 128.200
I’ll fix it up for you.
that just show how adventurous chinese ppl were. at least our grandparents landed in a city :) you’ll be surprised seeing lots of chinese-style tombs in even more remote islands around ambon. one of family friends, their great-grandpa came all the way from china into the jungle, married tribalchief’s daughter and ended up ruling the area. his descendants carry the village name as their surname to this day.
i still wonder, how did they communicate to survive? chinese ppl are amazing.