{"id":7320,"date":"2011-02-15T18:46:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T23:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=7320"},"modified":"2022-03-10T07:26:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:26:43","slug":"clustr-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/clustr-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Clustr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I appended a ClustrMap to Twelve Mile Circle <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=3513\">a year ago, yesterday<\/a>. That&#8217;s the little world map image that displays a few boxes down in the right-hand column marked by the &#8220;visitor locations&#8221; header. The way that the ClustrMap works apparently is that it compiles a map of visitors for an entire year, then it archives the thumbnail image and it starts over again. I managed to captured the larger-sized image on its final day. Behold the locations of a year&#8217;s worth of visitors to the website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clustrmaps.com\/map\/Howderfamily.com?utm_source=widget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/graphics\/blog\/clustr-12mc-2011.jpg\" alt=\"Screen print of ClustrMap for Twelve Mile Circle.\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to compress this a little to fit within the confines of the blog template so feel free to open the image in another window and see it in its original size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Addressing Concerns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To recap some of my original considerations, I felt the map would be a perfect accompaniment to my geo-oddities blog conceptually. However, I worried about the privacy implications for my visitors. Some of you also agreed with that in email messages to me. So I decided to try it out for awhile without rushing to judgment. Then I could determine whether it posed a problem or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the resulting image, I don&#8217;t see how it might release any information to potentially track individuals. Hey regular readers, can you distinguish your dot from the others? I can&#8217;t find mine. Well, I know the general location but it&#8217;s mixed-in with all the others. Maybe you could tell on the first day and then traffic quickly obscures it. Also, the locations aren&#8217;t exact and even the smallest of dots cover a fairly wide swath of geography. Well, maybe the guy in the middle of Greenland would have something to worry about, but I think that&#8217;s an error in the map anyway. Don&#8217;t people in Greenland live only along the coasts? Someone please correct me if I&#8217;m wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Not surprisingly, I&#8217;ve fairly well covered just about all of North America and Europe. Those areas remind me of the carnival game where one has to shoot a pellet gun at a paper target to cut-out the star. I think I won western Europe (except maybe a tiny spot in Spain?) but I missed a couple of desert locations in Mexico and the United States where nobody lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do a pretty good job around the edge of South America and the Pacific side of Asia. India looks good too. That one actually surprises me. I think I&#8217;ve also captured nearly every habitable spot in Australia and I blanket New Zealand. There are vast empty spots like the Amazon and Siberia but it&#8217;s hard to expect visitors from lightly populated places. 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