David's World

February 21, 2005

Places I've been, things I've seen

I wasted some time a while ago trying to find out to how many places I've been to in my (young) life. In my former job, I got to travel a lot (mainly scientific conferences and project meetings), and I also made it to Australia on a long vacation. So I thought I had covered a bit of the world - nada! The results were surprising.

So far, I have missed large parts of the world! All of Africa, Russia, China, India, the whole of South America - they're all virgin, speaking from a David-centric viewpoint! I've got lots of travelling to do...

In case you were wondering: I wrote a litte program that just takes a list of place names, finds out where exactly (latitude, longitude) they are and plots the results on a world map of variable size. Let me know if you'd like the code.

Nice. I would like the code.

My map is going to be the inverse of yours with lots of points in Asia, Africa and South America but with very few points in Europe and the US.

Hi.

I like to have the code you have written for showing the worldmap on my own site.
My friends have done some travelling as well.

Best Regards

Amel