It could be people viewing your profile more than once, or people from the same city (geo visitors will only log 1 pin if they are from the same location). Since you can't see 10 pins on top of each other anyway.
it's a very cool tool shawn (well done)... i run it and am amazed at where some of the folks turn up from... who'd of thought I'd attract visitors from Iceland!
Check this out... visitors to my blog in the last 24 hours. http://www.digitalpoint.com/~shawn/2006/05/map-of-digg-traffic.html Here's just the New York City area... It's a fun tool...
I think this is an awesome tool for your website. I appreciate you sharing it with us! I have dabbled with web development, but not too extensively. I do marketing for a car dealership and was looking to integrate some sales reports with google maps. I'm interested to visually track our customers to our PMA (prime marketing area.) Do you have any advise on tuturials I could use. Basically I'm looking to pull an excell spreadsheet with addresses and zips and overlay it on a google map. Any help you could give me would be much appreciated! Thanks, Chris
Google Maps has pretty good documentation... http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/ The other thing you will need is a database that cross references zip codes with longitude/lattitude (since Google Maps wants long/latt values for plotting points). You can find that from the US Census Bureau here: http://www.census.gov/tiger/tms/gazetteer/zcta5.txt
LOL I just checked Shawn's blog... that's meeeee from Mauritius Hahaha that lonely pin lost in the Indian Ocean
thought maybe i'd ask here too: how come geo visitors thinks i'm in kansas when geo targeting knows i'm on the west coast?