Map of PDL Users Worldwide

punkish has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

This may not be appropriate for SoPW, but, my assumption is, it will make me and possibly others wiser --

I have started a map of PDL users worldwide which is populated by list of PDL users. Eventually, I will move the map to the PDL wiki, soon as I figure out how to embed that map in the silly Media Wiki.

If you are a PDL user, please go to the list of PDL users and enter the following information

place (city, province|state, country)
discipline for which you use PDL (please do enter the main area for which you use PDL. Don't leave this field blank)
latitude (Use negative numbers for South)
longitude (Use negative numbers for West)

I will eventually make the map mappable by discipline as well, but for now, it would be great to know just how widely known and used is PDL. Many thanks,

--

when small people start casting long shadows, it is time to go to bed

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Re: Map of PDL Users Worldwide by sierpinski (Chaplain) on Jul 03, 2010 at 16:28 UTC
If any piece of this is written in Perl (and I assume it is, of course), it would be a good fit for Cool Uses for Perl, which might end up getting front-paged thus getting more attention (resulting in more data entry, perhaps). If this doesn't violate any copyright law, post some of the code to share your knowledge to the rest of the Perl community. Someone might be wondering how to do the same type of project. I don't use PDL, but looks like a pretty cool site.	[reply]
Re^2: Map of PDL Users Worldwide by punkish (Priest) on Jul 03, 2010 at 22:49 UTC
If any piece of this is written in Perl (and I assume it is, of course), I am not sure what you mean by this. PDL, of course, is written in Perl and C. The PDL wiki is based on Media Wiki which is written in PHP. My own web site is written in Perl. The PDL Users map page is mainly JavaScript and CSS, using Google Maps and Docs API. it would be a good fit for Cool Uses for Perl, which might end up getting front-paged thus getting more attention (resulting in more data entry, perhaps). Once again, I am not sure what you are referring to above. That said, PDL is really, really cool. If this doesn't violate any copyright law, post some of the code to share your knowledge to the rest of the Perl community. Someone might be wondering how to do the same type of project. The map is all JavaScript, so all one has to do is to view the source. Its all already there. -- when small people start casting long shadows, it is time to go to bed	[reply]