Re: Tkined 1.3.3: Help!
eddy@ISI.EDU
Mon, 6 Nov 1995 13:36:45 -0800 (PST)
>
> Hi!
>
> Aaron J Peterson II <aajpeter@intersource.com> said:
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> Aaron> On another point, does anyone remember the address of that (or
> Aaron> any) geographical database server, that you could telnet to
> Aaron> and perform simple matching queries about locations? I was
> Aaron> thinking about the IP World function, and "wouldn't it be nice
> Aaron> if" someone were to write a semi-automated front end to
> Aaron> expanding the location database. Gee-whiz factor would
> Aaron> increase ten fold.
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> I did not know about such a service. Let us know if you find out a
> good way to resolve geographic names to location information. The IP
> World script was a Friday afternoon hack, but it might be fun to spend
> another Friday afternoon on it. :-)
>
> Juergen
>
i did happen across:
http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo
which in turn claims to use: martini.eecs.umich.edu. Actually this
would be more than just a little fun on a friday for me. it would
actually be a win. i'm using tkined to map relations amoung
autonomous systems (BGP peerings). which can produce extremly
dense interconnected graphs, so layout is a big concern (of which
there is no easy or common solution.
it turns out that geographical layout might be our best bet short
of user placement... i will actually look at this closer in a couple
weeks. if anyone know anything more i'd love to hear about it.
also, i'll drop a blurb on anything that i find that may be of interest.
--
- rusty
eddy@isi.edu