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Reboot People Map

The people of reboot on map.

To get yourself on the map, just edit your profile and add your home location (and then wait a while for the map to regenerate).

See also reboot people in pictures.

Status

Data is obviously only as good as that on the reboot site.

As of Thursday morning, there are 203 people with reboot profiles and 134 people on the map (about 66%).

There are no people from the southern hemisphere.

Extremes: North Brian Suda (Iceland), South: Brynn Evans (San Diego), West: Robert Goldberg (Nevada), East: Ana Desina Tudor (Bucharest).

Resources

Tab-delimited ASCII file of people and locations

JSON of people and locations

How It's Made

I start with the people index page from the reboot website:

http://www.reboot.dk/listpublish-4251-en.html?start=0&paglen=500

I grab the HTML from that page, and parse out the URLs for the individual people, which look like this:

http://www.reboot.dk/person-508-en.html

I then visit each URL, and look for the (very helpful) special URL that leads to an XML file of the entire "person object." Mine looks like this and in the HTML of the page it looks like this:

<link 
  rel="alternate" 
  type="application/x-anymeta-thing+xml" 
  href="http://www.reboot.dk/thing/8f9c9032-250d-102a-a06c-0014385010dc"
  title="anyMeta thing XML export" />

I then grab __that__ URL, and parse the XML, looking for the location data that looks like this:

<coverage>
    <geometry_lat>55.7228</geometry_lat>
    <geometry_long>12.4409</geometry_long>
</coverage>

The rest is just standard Google Maps stuff.