It is using IP information from hits to the image you linked on their server and then mapping those IPs to a location. If it finds a location, it puts a star on the map. There are open source libraries and api's out there to do a geolocation based on IP.
Why you picked the dark map without the view of the earth is a question I cannot answer.
I thought there'd at least be outlines; you know, like a photograph from space. If only some folks in Asia, Africa, and South America looked at it, you could see more outlines. *sigh*
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Dude, you must be hard up for entertainment.
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Why you picked the dark map without the view of the earth is a question I cannot answer.
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Re: the night-time map: I was hoping to duplicate one of those cool night-time-Earth-from-space shots. Not quite as cool like this.
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Click on the image for city names and such.
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The sentence that sums up all of livejournal....
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