ANZ Championship fandom location on LiveJournal, bebo and blogger

This entry was posted by Laura on Thursday, 28 January, 2010 at

I’m playing with Microsoft MapPoint. It is pretty awesome, except for the fact that some smaller cities don’t register. Anyway, I finished compiling the location of all fans of ANZ Champship teams on bebo, blogger, LiveJournal and LiveJournal clones. Interest in this particular competition is small compared to the NRL, AFL and A-League. For a few people, fans didn’t list a city which makes getting an accurate idea of where fans are difficult. Two cities didn’t appear as they were really, really rural so they were excluded. I took this data and the output was the following map.

ANZ Championship

Overview map

Australia Test by City

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Adelaide Thunderbirds
Melbourne Vixens
New South Wales Swifts (Sydney Swifts)
Northern Mystics
Southern Steel
Sydney Swifts

The map has that limited perspective because there were no Queensland based fans. That includes people who just listed state, not city. The same situation existed for Western Australia, Tasmania, the ACT and Northern Territory.

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  • http://geopoliticallyincorrect.blogspot.com/ Adelaide Dupont

    It's most unlike me to praise a Microsoft product over Google, but the MapPoints work beautifully.

    (Maybe if I go into Google Chrome versus Firefox, the Google Maps will work better: I mean faster? That is possibly magical thinking).

  • http://www.fanhistory.com LauraH

    I was pleasantly surprised by it. It has some issues with towns; any city with less than 5,000 people is questionable if it shows up on Microsoft Maps for Australia. It doesn't have the complete functionality I would like but still, falls into the ranges of pretty damned awesome for what I want to do.

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