XeroViz
IP location tracking & visualization server
Description
XeroViz serves a 1x1 tracking gif to anyone surfing to your website. Then, as part of the web request, it will determine the location of the user based on the user's IP address and broadcasts that location to anyone listening over a socket.
This was built specifically for WDCNZ 2011 (WebDevCon in Wellington, NZ) as part of a demo of Node and socket.io.
Requirements
- node.js v0.4.x
- geoip v0.4.x
Installation
git clone git://github.com/storminwalker/XeroViz.git
cd XeroViz
# Use npm to install the dependencies
npm install
# if that doesn't work try
npm update
Requires geoip - usally requires building so best to do an install of that specifically if it's not working
npm install geoip
Running XeroViz
To start the tracking server, run the following:
node server.js
By default it will start a test page running on port 8001. Go to http://127.0.0.1:8001 to see a map and a test button.