[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:          
 Keywords:                  |         Parent:          
   Points:                  |   Actualpoints:          
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Comment(by chiiph):

 Replying to [comment:8 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.

 Sure, I guess we just have to see how that solution looks like and judge
 whether it's good or too much.

 >
 > 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.
 >

 There is no geoip server anymore, we use tor to resolve ip to country, and
 tor uses a geoip file that is distributed with it.

 > > 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.

 You can find them on IRC Freenode channel #marble. If you don't ask
 someone something because you are afraid of looking stupid then you need
 to solve that, because it doesn't matter if you look stupid, if you have
 read the docs and actually tried to answer something yourself but you
 can't, asking is not wrong (even if the answer is really
 simple/stupid/whatever).

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