mapping people I'm following on twitter: (KML, java, geonames.org)

I wrote a java tool to map the people I'm following on twitter. This tool invokes the twitter API to fetch the profiles of my contacts and it uses the geonames web services to guess the geolocation of the places.

The source code is available on github at https://github.com/lindenb/jsandbox/blob/master/src/sandbox/TwitterToKML.java.
the build.xml is here.

Compilation

ant twitterkml
#get your twitter-id at "http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.xml?screen_name=<your-twitter-username>"
java -jar dist/twitterkml.jar -g <geonames-id> -o result.kml <twitter-numeric-id>
##WAIT. I don't use the OAuth API, so my program waits until the 'rate limit' is enabled again.

'following'

View @yokofakun's followings date:2011-04-28 21:03:42.079 in a larger map

'followers'

View @yokofakun's followers date:2011-04-29 in a larger map

That's it,
Pierre

Idiographica

Via aziesel on del.icio.us, I found the tool I was looking for:

Idiographica: a general-purpose web application to build idiograms on-demand for human, mouse and rat

Kin T and Ono Y, Bioinformatics 2007; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm455

Idiographica a web server which serves as a general purpose idiogram rendering service, and allows users to generate high-quality idiograms with custom annotation according to their own genome-wide mapping/annotation data through an easy-to-use interface. The generated idiograms are suitable not only for visualizing summaries of genome-wide analysis but also for many types of presentation material including web pages, conference posters, oral presentations, etc.Idiographica is freely available at http://www.ncrna.org/idiographica/

google view:timeline

seen on Timeline and map views: here you can see the results of your query on a timeline or a map. With the timeline and map views, Google’s technology extracts key dates and locations from select search results so you can view the information in a different dimension.

See Charles Darwin's Timeline
Charles Darwin's Map
Bioinformatics conferences



Pierre