Hi,

I am looking for a way to generate a picture of the world map with a few dots on it each of which represents an IP address (or a domain name) for a list of URLs from a text file. Basically, I would like to do something similar to what's offered here except that my application has nothing to do with parsing visitor logs.

So, I guess my first question is if someone know whether or not a perl-ish way for doing this already exists. If not, then here's what I have come up with on my own so far. I can use perl's Geo::IP module to translate a URL (or IP address) into latitude and longitude coordinates. My question then turns into how would one go about mapping these coordinates? I know that Google Maps can do it (and there is even IWL::Google::Map for that), however this seems like a huge overkill for what I'm trying to do. So, can anyone suggest a better method?

thanks in advance!

In reply to Perl-ish way to generate world map with IP address info by gri6507

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