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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

I've been playing with mapbuilder this evening, trying to use google
maps as the back-end to create a zoomable world map of all the T1/T2
servers.  At the moment there is no accurate data for IPv6 servers, but
I can use geoip to build a decent map of the IPv4 servers.  When you
look at the map, don't forget to scroll to view Australia!

http://opennic.oss/mapbuilder/

Yellow indicates a T1 server
Blue indicates a T2 server
Green indicates both a T1 and T2 at the same location

Where there are a number of servers overlapping the same location, the
tooltip tries to combine the server names (this still needs work).  If
you click on the flag, you should get an accurate list of the servers
located on that spot.

There are a lot instances where servers are shown in strange locations
(ns3.qc.ca is being shown in Puerto Rico instead of Canada)... As
stated, this is still in beta testing, but I think this could finally
give us a usable map for viewing the locations of servers.

Please don't worry about reporting bugs yet... there are still a lot!  I
just wanted to put this out here and see if anyone thinks it could be
useful.