[HECnet] Map of HECnet locations

[Keith Halewood]

I tried to reply to this with an svg attachment, the result of me parsing out the results from a series of NCP TELL xxxx SHOW KNOWN CIRC STAT and turning it into a graph.
It doesn't appear to have propagated. It sent ok.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Paul Koning
Sent: 10 March 2020 20:43
To: hecnet at update.uu.se
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Map of HECnet locations



> On Mar 10, 2020, at 3:07 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> On 2020-03-10 17:14, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>>   Has anybody done a map (an actual geographic map, not just a list) of HECnet locations?
> 
> There was an attempt several years ago, but I think it fizzled out.
> 
> It would be interesting. Even better if it could also draw lines between points that have direct connections.
> 
> A slight problem is that the physical location of nodes are not always known...

The open source genealogy program Gramps has some similar requirements.  It uses a package "Graphviz" that has lots of charting options.  The documentation for that package shows a network map as one example.

The other thing Gramps does is interface to map services like OpenStreetMap, which suggests ways to make a "geographic map".

	paul