Hi folks,
I don't know if Martin is going to put an offical announcement in the news section at the front of moodle.org, but I thought I'd just pop in here with my sites registrar hat on, to tell you that a few minutes ago, I registered a live working Moodle site in our ONE HUNDREDTH COUNTRY!
That's up from 96 in just a couple of hours...so welcome to Vietnam, Moldova, Uzbekistan and Bulgaria.
Moodle Rocks On!
By the way, has anyone considered creating a map showing global moodle coverage?
Hi Sean, thanks for that wonderful info !! 
It is indeed heartwarming to see how many different countries, cultures, languages etc are being assisted to bring 'learning' to people that perhaps would not be able to 'afford ' the proprietary systems ? Moodle is really helping to break down that Digital Divide It really would be fantastic ,if, in a few years, the Band- Aid , and famine relief programs ,were not needed, because the people were educated ,and able to look after themselves. Pipedream ?? or is it ?
What Martin and you guys are providing to the WORLD , is awesome !
Joyce
PS Mart had a map of the world (Moodle wise) on the presentation he gave us at Adelaide Moodle Moot , it was a great presentation by the way, maybe ask Mart to give us the presentation !!
It is indeed heartwarming to see how many different countries, cultures, languages etc are being assisted to bring 'learning' to people that perhaps would not be able to 'afford ' the proprietary systems ? Moodle is really helping to break down that Digital Divide It really would be fantastic ,if, in a few years, the Band- Aid , and famine relief programs ,were not needed, because the people were educated ,and able to look after themselves. Pipedream ?? or is it ?What Martin and you guys are providing to the WORLD , is awesome !
Joyce
PS Mart had a map of the world (Moodle wise) on the presentation he gave us at Adelaide Moodle Moot , it was a great presentation by the way, maybe ask Mart to give us the presentation !!
What a magic post Joyce - very life affirming. With regard to a map, WEBQUEST Guru Prof Bernie Dodge of San Diego Uni has had such a thing on his personal Blog (highly recommended) One Trick Cyberpony. Here's one of the map tools I've seen him use - would that work?
Maps are allready used in Moodle, at an individual level. In Logs, clicking on the IP address gives a location on a world map.
Thanks Drew .
here is a 'photo' of what I was referring to, Martin's presentation to us ( a bit fuzzy, but think you may get the gist of it ) we shall all of us, one day ,make a bigger difference together !, than the 'difference' that has already been achieved by the trailblazers '
cheers
Joyce
here is a 'photo' of what I was referring to, Martin's presentation to us ( a bit fuzzy, but think you may get the gist of it ) we shall all of us, one day ,make a bigger difference together !, than the 'difference' that has already been achieved by the trailblazers '
cheers
Joyce
You know, looking at that map, I've just realised, we have no moodle in Antarctica. The last continent...
Sean K Beardie
Sean K Beardie
Sean,
but at least one of my test students I am using on my websites is from Cold City, Antartica.
There is already a virtual moodler there
Andreas
but at least one of my test students I am using on my websites is from Cold City, Antartica.
There is already a virtual moodler there
Andreas
Let's make sure our maps are area accurate, and don't favor any particular hemisphere:
http://www.petersmap.com/
http://www.petersmap.com/
You beat me to mentioning the Dymaxion Map so I'll provide a couple of other links with nice versions of it:
The map above is from a site that is linked from the place Tony pointed too, but as it is easy to miss and has a few hidden gems (flash animations etc.) I thought I'd mention it explicitly.
Thanks! As you noted, that page is easy to miss (I missed it).
I highly recommend looking at the Flash animation from the site. It's really cool.
I have a printout of the PDF hanging above my workstation right now.
I highly recommend looking at the Flash animation from the site. It's really cool.
I have a printout of the PDF hanging above my workstation right now.
Re the Peters Projection
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa030201a.htm
gives an intreresting slant on the debate.
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa030201a.htm
gives an intreresting slant on the debate.
If anyone is seriously considering creating a world coverage map of servers I can arrange to get a list of raw IPs to you for that purpose (only).
Alternatively, and probably better, perhaps someone can come up with a cool little script akin to the userpics page that simply processes all the user profiles in a Moodle site and plots their countries (using colours?) in realtime on a map. This would be a nice addition to Moodle anyway.
(Updated the link)
Alternatively, and probably better, perhaps someone can come up with a cool little script akin to the userpics page that simply processes all the user profiles in a Moodle site and plots their countries (using colours?) in realtime on a map. This would be a nice addition to Moodle anyway.
(Updated the link)
Hi Martin!
This is what I get when I click on the "userpix" link above,
This is what I get when I click on the "userpix" link above,
| Currently only the administrator can access this page! |
WP1
Sorry, I linked to the wrong one - I've fixed the link now.
It would be neat if you could integrate at HitMap perhaps in a block (there are smaller maps). I've not looked into it in depth but I doubt it's rocket science. If you want one for your own website, sign up here.
Nice!
I cut and pasted the code they provide into the site description field of our cvs-head test server. I think it looks quite cute and would make a nice block project for those with a global audience.
You obviously didn't see the block I put in this course yesterday then.
Still waiting for it to update....
Still waiting for it to update....
Ah, neat! Should be interesting data.
Hey David!
You are just too cool. The Hit Map is a cool tool for the site and the blank maps at Wikipedia are a great tool for the classroom. [I am going to go "biome" crazy now.] Thanks for both. Martin! The side column Hit Map version looks really nice in Moodle.
WP1
You are just too cool. The Hit Map is a cool tool for the site and the blank maps at Wikipedia are a great tool for the classroom. [I am going to go "biome" crazy now.] Thanks for both. Martin! The side column Hit Map version looks really nice in Moodle.
WP1
Hi Martin!
I'm using HitMaps outside of my Moodle environment - has this made it to a block which others can use (even as an experiment) or is it limited to moodle.org? 
Ian.
Hitmaps in general is going down the tubes I think ... looks like they can't handle the load any more.
The block code is trivial:
<?php
class CourseBlock_hitblock extends MoodleBlock {
function CourseBlock_hitblock ($course) {
$this->title = "Recent Visitors";
$this->content_type = BLOCK_TYPE_TEXT;
$this->course = $course;
$this->version = 2004050300;
}
function get_content() {
global $USER, $CFG;
if ($this->content !== NULL) {
return $this->content;
}
$this->content = New object;
$this->content->footer = '';
$courseid = $this->course->id;
$this->content->text = '<center><a href="http://hitmaps.open.ac.uk/bigs/moodle.org/map-world2.html" id="hitMapsLink"><img src="http://hitmaps.open.ac.uk/bigs/moodle.org/output-no_clusters/thumb.png" width="160" height="80" border=0 alt="Site visitors from the past week" onError="this.onError=null; this.src=\'http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/hitmaps/imgs/hitmaps-soon.jpg\'; document.getElementById(\'hitMapsLink\').href=\'http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/hitmaps/\'"></a><p>Hits in the last 7 days</center>';
return $this->content;
}
function hide_header() {
return false;
}
function preferred_width() {
return 186;
}
}
?>
And my code to generate the list of IPs to upload to Hitmaps was just:
<?php
require_once("../config.php");
header("Content-Type: text/plain\n");
$time = time() - (24 * 3600);
$hits = get_records_sql_menu("SELECT ip,count(*) FROM log WHERE time >= '$weekago' GROUP BY ip");
foreach ($hits as $ip => $count) {
if (!empty($ip)) {
mtrace("$ip,$count");
}
}
?>
The block code is trivial:
<?php
class CourseBlock_hitblock extends MoodleBlock {
function CourseBlock_hitblock ($course) {
$this->title = "Recent Visitors";
$this->content_type = BLOCK_TYPE_TEXT;
$this->course = $course;
$this->version = 2004050300;
}
function get_content() {
global $USER, $CFG;
if ($this->content !== NULL) {
return $this->content;
}
$this->content = New object;
$this->content->footer = '';
$courseid = $this->course->id;
$this->content->text = '<center><a href="http://hitmaps.open.ac.uk/bigs/moodle.org/map-world2.html" id="hitMapsLink"><img src="http://hitmaps.open.ac.uk/bigs/moodle.org/output-no_clusters/thumb.png" width="160" height="80" border=0 alt="Site visitors from the past week" onError="this.onError=null; this.src=\'http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/hitmaps/imgs/hitmaps-soon.jpg\'; document.getElementById(\'hitMapsLink\').href=\'http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/hitmaps/\'"></a><p>Hits in the last 7 days</center>';
return $this->content;
}
function hide_header() {
return false;
}
function preferred_width() {
return 186;
}
}
?>
And my code to generate the list of IPs to upload to Hitmaps was just:
<?php
require_once("../config.php");
header("Content-Type: text/plain\n");
$time = time() - (24 * 3600);
$hits = get_records_sql_menu("SELECT ip,count(*) FROM log WHERE time >= '$weekago' GROUP BY ip");
foreach ($hits as $ip => $count) {
if (!empty($ip)) {
mtrace("$ip,$count");
}
}
?>
Lovely! Thank you Martin... trivial to you I guess! 
Any idea why the HitMaps thingy always says to me "hits depicted above: 2223"? Is it working for you guys? That is, giving different numbers each week, at least.
The Hitmaps service is basically dead, I think ... I've been hoping it will come back, but ...
If someone wanted to sit down with a list of countries and create a map of coverage then they could take this blank political map of the globe from wikipedia and color the appropriate countries with any drawing package (all the countries have a 1 pixel border.
On Wikipedia's blank maps page they also have e.g. US and German states if someone felt that level of detail would be interesting to show too.