In the last post we talked about some of Microsoft technology for locating users.
As you can see, we use Microsoft Virtual Earth maps for MapVisitors.
However, we couldn’t use their geocoder because it runs on the client side in Javascript, and I couldn’t figure out how that would work with our architecture, because we only want […]

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There are many ways to locate people’s geographical information just by looking at their IP address, but Microsoft “Locate Me” feature uses a pretty interesting and novel technique that I hadn’t heard about before.
Actually I’m pretty sure they license this database, so I shouldn’t give all the credit to Microsoft, but they user the MAC […]

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The following is a list of sites who generate the most hits on our service:
http://www.mp2kmag.com/ & http://www.mapforums.com/
Long time visitors will recognize both of those as our own sites
http://www.anselme.homestead.com/
This has been a long time user of our service
http://greekgreek.mylivepage.com
This is a more recent user.
Let us know if you are using the MapVisitors service and what […]

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