The KML file works great in Marble (<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Marble_%28software%9>), a free software Google Earth-like program. It's also available in Debian and derivatives under the package "marble". Apologies to anyone who got this twice, but I wanted to make sure that both lists were aware of this (since I don't really like the "look at the Tor network on Google" thing). On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 15:47 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
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From: Moritz Bartl <moritz@torservers.net> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:43:38 +0100 To: or-talk@freehaven.net Subject: Visualization: Tor nodes on Google Maps and Google Earth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 Reply-To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Hi,
I wrote a small ugly Python script to visualize Tor relays on Google Maps and Google Earth. You can see the result here:
* Open KML file in Google Maps:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http:%2F%2Fwww.torservers.net%2Fmisc%2Ftormap%... Ftormap.kml
* Download tormap.kml for Google Earth http://www.torservers.net/misc/tormap/tormap.kml
The KML standard is being pushed by Google and should work for OpenStreetMap, too, but I couldn't get it to load there. Feel free to modify the script to generate other outputs. The initial idea was to scale the marker size to show the relay's bandwidth, but Google Maps does not support this.
The markers might give a false impression of accuracy. Most IPs can only be tracked to city level (or even region), ie. the markers are somewhat near, not necessarily at the real location of the relay.
You can download the script here: http://www.torservers.net/misc/tormap/tormap.py (LGPL)
This is a one-time snapshot and I will not update it regularly, unless there is public interest to do so. The bandwidth categories are based on the reported "observed bandwidth" at the time of creation, so the actual number of high bandwidth nodes will fluctuate every time the script is run. It would be nice to extend this script to use longer-term bandwidth calculation like TorStatus does, and to generate a map over time using all the consensus data provided at http://archive.torproject.org/. An example of what this could look like is Vis4Net's Wikileaks Mirror World Map at http://labs.vis4.net/wikileaks/mirrors/ .
( Mostly copied from my blog at
http://moblog.wiredwings.com/archives/20101213/Visualization-Tor-nodes-on-Go... gle-Maps-and-Google-Earth.html
) -- Moritz http://www.torservers.net/ *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majordomo@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
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