Drawing on protocol is a drawing constructed indirectly by its viewers, from the following rules:
- The IP address of each visitor to this page is recorded in the site logs
- The latitude and longitude of each visitor shall be estimated using a public IP look up service
- The route from one visitor to the next in sequence shall be found using a public mapping service
- If the route cannot be calculated from visitor i to visitor i+1, the route shall be attempted to visitor i+2, i+3, … i+n until one can be found
- When a route has been found, it will be drawn freehand on the paper, the page representing a coordinate space of 360°x180°, with 0,0 at the centre
- The hits will be recorded from the date of the first upload of this page, 20th June 2009
- Repeat hits from the same IP address will be ignored
- The drawing will be judged complete on whim, and no more lines shall be added
UPDATE 25th August: more lines added, and deemed complete. Most new entries were repeatedly in the same places – Seattle, California, or different network hubs in the UK and Europe.
UPDATE 2: best to do this sort of thing automatically, rather than with pencil and paper.
