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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Map 2011 by davidmathers on Sunday January 30, 2011 @10:03PM (#2160102)
Two things I wasn't expecting: Argentina vs Brazil & Spain vs Portugal. What's up with Portugal? And I didn't think France vs Germany/UK would be so drastic. Amazing.

Some of the dots are in strange places. Like the 2 dots off the coast of Africa are in the middle of the ocean. The dot in Tunisia is in the desert.

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Map 2011 by drp on Sunday January 30, 2011 @10:06PM (#2160112)
That particular spot in the ocean off the coast of Africa, south of Ghana and west of Gabon, is latitude 0, longitude 0.
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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Map 2011 by jacquesm on Monday January 31, 2011 @03:17AM (#2160720)
Good Catch, I think you've caught a data cleaning bug, the geo ip location service used to make the map probably returns '0,0' for IPs that it does not have a location for.
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