1 May
2020
1 May
'20
2:50 a.m.
As I've also told Paul in private, I this is really great. It's been on
my wish-list for many years, but have not always been so easy to figure
out how to do. Paul did some impressive work on PyDECnet, and now added
this, making it really nice! Thanks a lot.
I hope people can look at it and be a bit impressed on how far HECnet
spreads out. And of course, there is also the possibility for people to
see if they might benefit from getting some links up in cases where they
can see that they are really connected though some odd place from their
point of view.
And to just briefly also give a bit of tech information. The positional
data is extracted from the nodename database I have on Mim, so if people
spot they are placed wrong, or out in the south Atlantic, all you need
to do is give me a better position, and I'll update the nodename
database, and you will magically be corrected on the map as well (within
a day or a week, depending on how often the generated map is updated).
Johnny
On 2020-05-01 01:54, Paul Koning wrote:
Gentlepeople,
I've added a map maker to PyDECnet, which is now on-line on HECnet. It currently
refreshes once every 24 hours, showing locations and paths between the locations. You can
hover over the location markers to see nodes that have been recently observed, or click on
the markers to see all nodes whether observed or not. Clicking on the connecting arcs
will tell you which nodes have connections on that path.
The map is here: http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map
You can also see a tabular display of the data collected by the network scanner, at
http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map/data . Right now that link isn't shown, I'll
add that.
Feedback would be welcome. There is no map legend yet. The button on the upper right is
the "layers" tool that lets you chose among a number of map sources, and lets
you turn the location and/or path information on or off.
The default map is OpenStreetMap, and the mapping interface machinery is the Leaflet
package, a very nice and easy to use tool.
paul
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