Website visitors plotted on a Google Map

Created by Alan Howard and first implemented at http://www.songcontestvoting.com/e.

This simple mash-up plots the locations of the last 50 website visitors. It requires:

1. a script to determine the IP address of the visitor and to geolocate this IP using a service such as maxmind.com

2. a script or data file in which the latitude, longitude, and country (or other text) of the last 50 visitors are saved (e.g. figure 2 below) in csv format.

3. a google mashup like the one given in figure 1.

4. your own google api key.


Figure 1: Google Mashup

Figure 2: Sample data (save as data.txt to use in the above example mashup)