[HECnet] HECnet map

[Rob Jarratt]

Hello Johnny,

I can't remember what info you need for the node database but I forgot about two SIMH machines:

Name: PI1 - SIMH VAX 11/780 running VMS 5.4. Node address 5.99
Name: PI2 - SIMH MicroVAX 3900 running VMS 7.3 Node address 5.100

Regards

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf
> Of Johnny Billquist
> Sent: 01 May 2020 01:51
> To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> Subject: Re: [HECnet] HECnet map
> 
> 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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