How does Google Analytics accomplish showing you on a map where people are visiting your site from? (google Flash Analytics Mapping Statistics Adobe Flash)

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nidhi

May 30, 2007 - 04:00 AM

Im assuming they use the IP address. When someone visits your site, u will know their IP address.
Given a IP address, u can use something like tracert (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prod...) to find out where it came from. Given that info, u have a rough idea of where that person's ISP is.

Im afraid I dont know much more.

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nidhi

May 30, 2007 - 04:05 AM

Yes, ok. Im right so far. I just checked the web to verify.
I came across this useful site which contains a IP address database.
http://www.justin-cook.com/wp/2006/11...

So it seems u need to

1. get IP Address
2. convert to IP number
3. use database to pinpoint location

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nidhi

May 30, 2007 - 04:06 AM

In terms of visualisation, they probably determine the location then use their flash movies or whatever to move to that location in their maps.
That seems a lot of work!

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sbjc23

May 30, 2007 - 04:30 AM

That is what I need to know, how they visualize it.

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nidhi

May 30, 2007 - 04:33 AM

Well, for flash development, here is a start. http://www.backspace.com/mapapp/
This shows u the country, I guess more detail is required to show the cities etc
and here is a simple tutorial on doing just that http://www.lukamaras.com/tutorials/co...

yahoo have a service which u may find useful http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/flash...

are you planning on developing such a tool? what language?

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