mcol had the idea on IRC to show a world map here on nixers.net, with a pin for each member. Maybe it would be fun to do this in the community Gopher hole using asciiworld.

Each member could have a file ".location" in their directory. A cronjob or a CGI script could collect all those files and render the map. The only real problem is: An ASCII world map is pretty "crowded" and you need colors to highlight a location (otherwise it's just too hard to spot the marker). So the map would need to be wrapped in a short HTML file. Here's an example:


Looks like this in lynx:

Granted, it doesn't appear to work great in other Gopher clients. Some just pipe the raw HTML file to less(1).

asciiworld itself is a C program and needs shapelib and gd. There are OpenBSD ports for those. (The other shell scripts and Python scripts in the asciiworld repo can be ignored.)

Just an idea. :) A fun excercise in simplicity, because it would probably be much more involved to implement this here on the actual forum.