The KML file works great in Marble (<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Marble_%28software%9>), a free software Google Earth-like program. It's also available in Debian and derivatives under the package "marble". On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 15:43 +0100, Moritz Bartl wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote a small ugly Python script to visualize Tor relays on Google > Maps and Google Earth. You can see the result here: > > * Open KML file in Google Maps: > http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http:%2F%2Fwww.torservers.net%2Fmisc%2Ftormap%2Ftormap.kml > > * Download tormap.kml for Google Earth > http://www.torservers.net/misc/tormap/tormap.kml > > The KML standard is being pushed by Google and should work for > OpenStreetMap, too, but I couldn't get it to load there. Feel free to > modify the script to generate other outputs. > The initial idea was to scale the marker size to show the relay's > bandwidth, but Google Maps does not support this. > > The markers might give a false impression of accuracy. Most IPs can only > be tracked to city level (or even region), ie. the markers are somewhat > near, not necessarily at the real location of the relay. > > You can download the script here: > http://www.torservers.net/misc/tormap/tormap.py (LGPL) > > This is a one-time snapshot and I will not update it regularly, unless > there is public interest to do so. The bandwidth categories are based on > the reported "observed bandwidth" at the time of creation, so the actual > number of high bandwidth nodes will fluctuate every time the script is > run. It would be nice to extend this script to use longer-term bandwidth > calculation like TorStatus does, and to generate a map over time using > all the consensus data provided at http://archive.torproject.org/. An > example of what this could look like is Vis4Net's Wikileaks Mirror World > Map at http://labs.vis4.net/wikileaks/mirrors/ . > > ( Mostly copied from my blog at > http://moblog.wiredwings.com/archives/20101213/Visualization-Tor-nodes-on-Google-Maps-and-Google-Earth.html > )
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