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Re: Mapping the physical locations of Tor nodes




Any thoughts as to why these two maps are different?  socialistsushi has
far more nodes in asia, in particular china than the freehaven map.  The
sort by city choice on socialistsuchi also lists beijing as the city
with the most routers.
Two thoughts:
First, we are both apparently using the max mind stuff, but I have a fallback if that fails. That may explain why I have more.

Two: I noticed that certain IPs in some countries always seemed to return a specific city. Specifically here, anything in China said "Beijing." Don't know if that's accurate, or screwed up data, or what. But I don't attempt to verify anything, just slap it on the map.
Is socialistsushi cumulative over time or a snapshot of the current
consensus at the time the script runs?
The map should be active nodes at the time it's run. The other data should be over time. "Should be" because I never put much effort into making sure it was doing things correctly. It was an experiment for me. If there's interest in it again I may examine it a bit more, or perhaps redo it (it's not terribly complicated) to be cleaner and let others poke around in the code and tell me my errors :)

--B