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  1. lorien1973

    lorien1973 Notable Member

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    #41
    Personally. i think we should pretend each pin is a thermonuclear missile and we can play a little war.
     
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    Smyrl Tomato Republic Staff

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    My guru is chessaholic and does the backend programming for teamchess. When they notify players of pairings they show respective time zones of opponents. There has been some problems in relation to switching to daylight savings time. I believe not all parts of world switch at same time and not all zones differ by 1 hour with neighboring zone. He said he emailed you and I told him you do not do e-mial support.

    It seems to me if my IP will only identify my location to US there would be a problem.

    Shannon

    CEK says, "That would be neat, but a simple TZ return would suffice."
     
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  3. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #43
    Yeah, you would need to cross reference the longitude/lattitude boundaries for the different time zones, but then if you want to calculate the actual time as well, you would need to have a database of which time zones (or parts of time zones) do daylight savings time.

    It could be done in theory, but probably not something that is going to be added to the mapping system... I don't think most people care what time it currently is where the pin is to be honest.
     
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    Smyrl Tomato Republic Staff

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    Nor do I. CEK and Whizkid had talked about trying something similar to what you did to check for timezones.

    Fun tool as is. Much more exciting than looking at sight statistics.

    Shannon
     
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    Haichi Well-Known Member

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    #45
    I love this tool but I have a question, after 24 hours... say I had a visit from Japan on monday will the pin still show up on Friday or would it have cleared off the map?

    look at my map http://www.kreyol.com
    I loved how the eastcoast was so crowded with pins :)
     
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  6. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #46
    After 24 hours, the pin will not show anymore (unless someone visits from that same area again). The pins fade from dark red to really light pink as they get older (the oldest it will show is 24 hours ago).
     
    digitalpoint, Nov 8, 2005 IP
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    FOX LORE Notable Member

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    Shawn-Thanks! Just added to one of my site-works Great!
    Lore
     
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    asr_guy Peon

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    #48
    Cool tool. Works on my affiliate s/w review site but not on another one where I put it on the home page. I know I have visitors over the last few hours but still don't see more than my own pin. Do they have to click on the image or should it just track when the page is shown?

    Cheers,
    Peter
     
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  9. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #49
    It will show automatically. What's the site?
     
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    asr_guy Peon

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    asr_guy Peon

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    #51
    Now it shows someone in Florida. Never mind. Thanks again for a great little tool!

    Cheers,
    Peter
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #52
    Looks like it's working to me... Shows me in San Diego on your map.
     
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    asr_guy Peon

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    Oh yeah. Just off University Ave. I can see you by the pool with the sat photo. Slacker :)

    Cheers,
    Peter
     
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    #54
    Very cool tool Shawn, good work:)

    Just wondering - how does it now who visited from which website, so you can assign a user to the appropriate map? It uses the browser's referrer string I guess? So it wouldn't show people with norton internet security blocking the referrer string?
     
    mykel79, Nov 11, 2005 IP
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    hulkster Peon

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    #55
    Time zones (and daylight savings) get complicated REAL quick - lotsa political stuff involved ... and as you may have heard, it looks like the USA is talking about extending daylight savings time in the not-too-distant future ... so this stuff changes. So while you can take an easy wag at it (and probably be right most of the time), it's very non-trivial to nail it all the time.

    On an unrelated point, Javascript has a "checkTimeZone" routine ... but this assumes that you have set that correctly on your box ... ;-)
     
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    #56
    OK I'm not sure what exactly this tool does. If I put it on my site and visit it I see one hit. (Based on the info above I presume that's me.)

    The Digital Point site shows many hits all over the world. Where does it get its data?

    Is it cumulative? ie the next person who clicks on that button from my site sees him/herself and me, is that how it works?

    On a slightly different topic, is there a way to get the geo data back to my site to use?
     
    wolfpack, Nov 17, 2005 IP
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #57
    It's the visitors that visited the Geo Visitors tool in the last 24 hours.

    It doesn't matter if the user looks at the map or not, it will log them regardless. It shows visitor's locations to your site in the last 24 hours.

    No, sorry.
     
    digitalpoint, Nov 17, 2005 IP
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    #58
    www.FPwebsitedesign.com

    It shows me digitalpoint.com's visitor geo-locations instead of mine.

    Thanks,

    Ben Fremer
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #59
    If it falls back to digitalpoint.com, then your browser isn't sending referrer info (it doesn't know where you clicked from).
     
    digitalpoint, Nov 18, 2005 IP
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    lorien1973 Notable Member

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    I clicked the thing on your site and it showed me visitors to the correct site.
     
    lorien1973, Nov 18, 2005 IP
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