Track visitors to your website using Google Maps
gvisit.com is the newest tool to make use of the Google Maps API. It allows bloggers - or anyone with a website - to track the locations of their visitors, and plot the results on a Google Map. It is free (donation driven) and you don’t even need to register an email address.
That script is awesome! i cant wait till i see where my visitors are reading from and then track ‘em down or something and have some pure unfiltered fun but this one has too many ads & the map is not very big. I couldn’t even figure out how to add myself to the map!
This is no invasion of anyone’s privacy. Whenever you visit a website, the server logs your IP. It *has* to, its the only way it knows of sending you the data you requested. Any webmaster for any site you visit only has to look through his logs to see the IP addresses of the people who visited him, at what times, and what files they requested. That’s just the way the web works. The only thing this service does is map those IP’s to an approximate geographical location using GMaps. Which means that the best it can do, without actually going into the ISP and requesting that they turn over their customer records of you, is to show the approximate location of your ISP. That’s all. This is not any infomration that any webmaster would not have been able to get before. The only neat thing about this is that now that information is shown in a nice zoomable map.