[Planetlab-users] PlanetLab nodes geographical coordinates

[Rob Sherwood]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:57:55PM -0700, denise duma wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Does anyone knows if and where I could find a tool giving the geographical coordinates
> (longitude and latitude) for subsets of PlanetLab nodes received as input?
>  
> Of what I have found on the site, I guess the Sophia tool developed at Princeton might do something like this
>  but unfortunately I'm unable to access its webpage or the documentation (the same for
> PlanetLab Visualizer another useful tool from Princeton but unfortunately impossible to get it to work)! 
>  
> Do you know what else I could use to solve my problem?

If you look in the xml encoded sites.xml file
(http://www.planet-lab.org/xml/sites.xml) they have latitude and
longitude coordinates for most nodes.  Fair warning, some of the nodes
in the past have had bogus values, so you may need to sanity check the
input.

- Rob
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