Visual TraceRoute in Google Earth
Another web-widget I wasted an afternoon hacking together:
I’m a Google Earth addict, and wanted to do something ‘useful’ with it - here’s my attempt:
You can now run a traceroute (tracert in Windows) and upload the ‘report’ to this site, and it’ll spew a KML file at you with all the hops, with vague descriptions, and a path linking them (at least the ones with resolved locations!)
You can find this nifty little tool here.
There’s a comment address there, but feel free to leave (spam-free) comments in this post, too.
For the technically inclined, I’m resolving the IP addresses using MaxMind’s free GeoLiteCity database.
on October 12th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
Spam-free. You really shouldn’t have mentioned that Chris.
Because you’ve got a great blog here.
I’ve got this great TraceRoute site.
Check it out here - http://thewafflegroup.blogspot.com
on October 12th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Just kidding - I’d check out your script, but it’s not really worth it the way Google earth loads over 56k.
on October 12th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
Hey hokey
i tried your goog earth script. something is wrong. either my traceroute output is truncated, or you live in New York.
maybe your server is just hosted there???
on October 13th, 2006 at 7:13 am
Close. Server’s actually in New Jersey
on October 13th, 2006 at 8:08 am
Aaagh! Not New Jersey!
on October 13th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
very very cool
I will be doing some playing around with this
on October 14th, 2006 at 10:46 am
I tried it out for the Telkom site (couldn’t think of anything else in SA - scarred for life by them I am) and here’s the result:
http://bricesh.blogspot.com/2006/10/see-how-they-hop.html