Frappr
October 25, 2005 | 
16 Comments
This morning Gina directed me to a really fun tool called Frappr that lets you build a Google Map for any kind of group.
She explains it better than I can:
Frappr helps folks visualize far-flung groups - say, for instance, people who post in a message board or who read your weblog or who play a multiplayer online game. It’s a neat application of Google Maps to see real faces and places of people in virtual communities.
At any rate, I’ve created a group for people who read Asterisk. Right now I’m the only one, but it’d be cool if some of you went and added yourself. Just takes a sec!
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Comments
1. David Barrett said:
On a related note, is there any tool that links into your webstats and Google Maps to create a map of where your visitors are coming from?
Posted on October 25, 2005 10:28 AM | #
2. Keith said:
David – I don’t know. I will say this is VERY cool. It’s really neat to see the faces of people who read the site. I mean, y’all have seen me, now it’s my turn! ;0)
Posted on October 25, 2005 10:32 AM | #
3. oneighturbo said:
We set up one for our VW New Beetle forums. I posted about it on my site http://oneighturbo.com/?p=93
David, your looking for http://www.gvisit.com/
They even spit javascript to you for placing it on your blog. I had it running but it wasn’t loading for a few days so i yanked it.
Posted on October 25, 2005 11:53 AM | #
4. Sheldon Kotyk said:
David, there is a mint pepper being worked on to do that… Check out the pepper section of the haveamint.com forums.
Posted on October 25, 2005 02:15 PM | #
5. Adrian B said:
It is now the second of these that I have added my mark. For Wausau, WI, at least for my zip code of 54403, Frappr puts our location a couple of miles to the east. Has anyone elsewhere noticed this?
Hi to Patrick Hills, a Frappr-found neighbor.
Posted on October 25, 2005 03:51 PM | #
6. J. J. said:
Adrian, try plugging in your zip to the Zip Code Boundary Map http://maps.huge.info/zip.htm
I bet you’re within the red lines. The pinpoint basically grabs a central part of the zip code.
Posted on October 25, 2005 05:42 PM | #
7. Adrian B said:
Good call J.J. It turns out that my Zip covers a whole area of farmland as well as half the city!
Cheers.
Posted on October 25, 2005 06:01 PM | #
8. Nollind Whachell said:
Actually it wacked out my location in Vancouver, BC as well. I think it has something to do with zooming in too far. I live near 2nd and Waterloo yet it placed me in Downtown Vancouver. YET if you zoom in really close to 2nd and Waterloo, you’ll see a marker there. When you click the marker it just moves to the spot where it added me in Downtown Vancouver. Very weird.
Posted on October 25, 2005 08:07 PM | #
9. May said:
Hey what about Suva, Fiji?? Invalid City?
Man that sux!
Thinking of being the first Fijian to be on the map. :-(
Posted on October 25, 2005 10:58 PM | #
10. Egor Kloos said:
Rotterdam here! :)
Very cool to see some of the readers of Asterisk.
Maybe this could be a plug in for Expression Engine or MovableType and have members mapped out automatically.
Posted on October 26, 2005 01:33 AM | #
11. Ian Pouncey said:
Nice, except that in the UK, at least, it isn’t very good at handling multiple locations with the same name. It wasn’t in my case anyway, hence the my two listings.
Posted on October 26, 2005 01:33 AM | #
12. Jim Renaud said:
Would be really cool if the names could have links to their websites.
Posted on October 26, 2005 12:36 PM | #
13. Egor Kloos said:
@Jim. Okay your name doesn’t go all blue and underlined but you can have a link to your web site. Just scribble down your URI in the ‘shoutout’ field when you add youself. frappr turns the URI into a link. easy peasy.
eh… no edit option. bugger.
btw. just viewing the photo’s is also fun
Posted on October 26, 2005 01:22 PM | #
14. Tom Parson said:
Thanks for this!
I went to a summer school this summer and have been wondering whether there was something like this to see where everybody was in the country.
Cheers :D
Posted on October 28, 2005 11:40 AM | #
15. Chris Messina said:
@David: MeasureMap from Adaptive Path (launching somewhat soon) offers visualizations of where your visitors are coming from on a nice, zoomable map. It’s very slick!
Posted on November 3, 2005 10:16 AM | #
16. Helen said:
Is it worth time? There is lifejournal for that.
Posted on December 7, 2005 03:48 PM | #
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