[tor-bugs] #4333 [Vidalia]: Mark Exit Relays on Vidalia's Tor Network Map

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#4333: Mark Exit Relays on Vidalia's Tor Network Map
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 Reporter:  ancientmariner  |          Owner:  sirop   
     Type:  enhancement     |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  minor           |      Milestone:          
Component:  Vidalia         |        Version:          
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Comment(by sirop):

 Replying to [comment:7 chiiph]:
 >This way it does not matter the country size, the actual point the user
 wants to see >is bellow the image. If there are too many markers near each
 other, the user can zoom >in and the markers will stay the same size.

 At the moment we see only 4 placemarks -- more precisely: only 4
 annotations for routers' placemarks -- even if we zoom in. We may change
 the font size of the annotation and see, maybe, 6 or 8 annotations but no
 more than that.
 The problem is that we have only one pair of (lon, lat)-GeoCoordinates for
 each country. If we know the size of the country or an optimal inner
 rectangle for each country, we may paint all routers' placemarks and avoid
 their overlapping.

 Another big question is whether our GeoIP-Server will be permanently up
 some day?
 If so, we'll get descriptors which geo-resolve IP's down to city level and
 not like now only down to country level.
 But connecting to GeoIP-Server is additional traffic and IPs resolved to
 city level might have little informative gain for the user.

 That's why i came up with this kml file. We do not even need the whole of
 it, only a subset: countries' names and corresponding rectangles. Then the
 file will get even
 smaller.

 > Another option would be to contact the Marble developers on IRC, they
 are really nice people. And see what they think about this issue, they may
 have a way to do exactly this already but we are not looking in the right
 place.

 Marble developers and users are hier
 http://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=217 .
 Torsten Rahn, for example. But I do not know how to formulate the question
 as not to appear too stupid.

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