This tool can be used to visualize web access logfiles. It performs geo-location resolution on the IPs (using api.hostip.info) and can generate:
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a fixed image
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an animated image
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a video
gem install ip-world-map
ip-world-map [options] logfile1 [logfile2] ...
--version Display the version
-h, --help Display this help message
-v, --verbose Verbose output
--map-filename VALUE The image to use as background
--resolution VALUE (eg.: 640x480)
--fps VALUE Animation frames per second (eg.: 25)
--fill-dot-color VALUE (eg.: red, 'rgb(255,0,0)', '#FF0000')
--fill-dot-scale VALUE (eg.: 10.0)
--fill-dot-opacity VALUE range 0.0-1.0 (eg.: 0.0, 0.5, 1.0)
--fill-dot-lifetime VALUE (eg.: 15)
--time-slot VALUE real life time visualized per video frame (eg.: 10secs, 1min, 99hours, 1day)
--output-format VALUE image format (e.g.: gif, jpg, png) or video format (avi, mpg, mp4)
--[no-]animate generate an image or a video
Generate PNG image. That’s the default output.
ip-world-map /var/log/apache2/access.log*
Generate AVI video with 640x480 and 25fps (default settings).
ip-world-map --animate --output-format avi /var/log/apache2/access.log*
Tested with Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.1 under *nix
René Scheibe
Copyright © 2010-2011 René Scheibe <rene.scheibe@gmail.com>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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