[HECnet] HECnet map

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2020-05-01 03:30, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 4/30/20 9:17 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>>> Do we actually have some sort of communications with Ascension in the South Atlantic?  I'm a big fan of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.  The bird life is fascinating.
>>>
>>> But I thought those nodes were actually in Russia or Kazakhstan.
>>
>> There are nodes in Almaty, shown as such, and also in several places in Russia.
>>
>> The south Atlantic spot is not Ascension but Inaccessible Island, in honor of the novel "Influx" by Daniel Suarez".  It's what I picked for the place holder for nodes with no location given.  It seemed more fun and also more easily visible than the typical default of lat/long 0,0.  No, we currently do not have any nodes that really are located on Inaccessible Island.
> 
>    I love it. :)
> 
>    So is this only mapping PyDECnet nodes?  I don't see anything in
> Pittsburgh, and I'm doing a good bit of routing here.

That might have something to do with the fact that you don't have any 
location registered for your nodes... ;-)

   Johnny

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