[HECnet] HECnet map

[Johnny Billquist]

As I've also told Paul in private, I this is really great. It's been on 
my wish-list for many years, but have not always been so easy to figure 
out how to do. Paul did some impressive work on PyDECnet, and now added 
this, making it really nice! Thanks a lot.

I hope people can look at it and be a bit impressed on how far HECnet 
spreads out. And of course, there is also the possibility for people to 
see if they might benefit from getting some links up in cases where they 
can see that they are really connected though some odd place from their 
point of view.

And to just briefly also give a bit of tech information. The positional 
data is extracted from the nodename database I have on Mim, so if people 
spot they are placed wrong, or out in the south Atlantic, all you need 
to do is give me a better position, and I'll update the nodename 
database, and you will magically be corrected on the map as well (within 
a day or a week, depending on how often the generated map is updated).

   Johnny

On 2020-05-01 01:54, Paul Koning wrote:
> Gentlepeople,
> 
> I've added a map maker to PyDECnet, which is now on-line on HECnet.  It currently refreshes once every 24 hours, showing locations and paths between the locations.  You can hover over the location markers to see nodes that have been recently observed, or click on the markers to see all nodes whether observed or not.  Clicking on the connecting arcs will tell you which nodes have connections on that path.
> 
> The map is here: http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map
> 
> You can also see a tabular display of the data collected by the network scanner, at http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map/data .  Right now that link isn't shown, I'll add that.
> 
> Feedback would be welcome.  There is no map legend yet.  The button on the upper right is the "layers" tool that lets you chose among a number of map sources, and lets you turn the location and/or path information on or off.
> 
> The default map is OpenStreetMap, and the mapping interface machinery is the Leaflet package, a very nice and easy to use tool.
> 
> 	paul
> 

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