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Title: A world map with the location of all the backers
Post by: Varti on February 24, 2018, 10:26:34 pm

The Gemini Planet FB page has published a nice wallpaper, depicting a world map with the location of all the backers:

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/uz6w2comcgzy296/M...er%201.jpg?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/uz6w2comcgzy296/Map%20desktop%20screen%20saver%201.jpg?dl=0)

Varti

Title: A world map with the location of all the backers
Post by: depscribe on February 25, 2018, 11:11:11 am

Quote from: Varti

The Gemini Planet FB page has published a nice wallpaper, depicting a world map with the location of all the backers:

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/uz6w2comcgzy296/M...er%201.jpg?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/uz6w2comcgzy296/Map%20desktop%20screen%20saver%201.jpg?dl=0)

Varti

I see mine! (In the middle of the blob that contains Ohio USA.)

Title: A world map with the location of all the backers
Post by: Varti on February 26, 2018, 04:14:18 am

Quote from: depscribe

I see mine! (In the middle of the blob that contains Ohio USA.)

I'd love to see a second wallpaper focusing on Europe: it is pretty crowded there, and it would be nice to have a better idea on how many orders have been done there by country.

Varti

Title: A world map with the location of all the backers
Post by: Nigel on March 02, 2018, 12:53:18 am

Anyone know what software is used for this, I have a project based on customers in UK.
Thanks

Title: A world map with the location of all the backers
Post by: speculatrix on March 08, 2018, 07:18:01 pm

I found this: http://www.openheatmap.com/ (http://www.openheatmap.com/)
and this: http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/do-it-yourself-...ting-data-maps/ (http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/do-it-yourself-gis-20-free-tools-data-sources-for-creating-data-maps/)

Title: A world map with the location of all the backers
Post by: davidbofinger on April 15, 2018, 09:57:00 pm

Just looking at Australasia, there are some odd features.

• I suppose it's just possible that some iron ore mine in the Pilbara has bought a bucket of Geminis, but it seems much more likely the blob in the west is Perth, and is supposed to be a good deal further south.
• Due east of it a spot in the middle of the Gibson Desert suggests kangaroo rats have better keyboard skills than I'd realised.
• Further east again a blob in Central Australia might be employees of the US-Australian spy base at Pine Gap
• There are four large blobs in the southeast. Three of them might be Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. The fourth is on an iceberg in the Southern Ocean somewhere west of Mount Gambier. Because kangaroo rats have nothing on penguins.
• Further north is Brisbane, Australia's third-largest city and twice the size of Adelaide. Nothing.
• Further north of that is the rest of Queensland. Crickets.
• There are New Zealand purchasers all through the south island. But north of Wellington, where Auckland is and most of the people live, is barren.

In summary, there's enough funny things going on here that I suspect the whole map is a little wobbly. Perhaps the map and the blobs don't quite line up.

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David