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SXSW Band Map

Posted on February 25, 2008
Over 1,500 bands will flock to Austin, TX this March for the SXSW music conference. Wondering where all of these groups come from? LW developer Jeff Palm put together this hometown map of all the groups playing this year.

Comments

  • seasick1
    seasick1 posted on Feb 27 - 2008 12:56:58 PM

    Very cool, but New Zealand/AUS looks to be missing at the moment.

  • Adrian
    Adrian posted on Feb 27 - 2008 01:50:15 PM

    I'm sure you've noticed this, but there are a few places' flags that don't match up with where they actually are. South African cities are in the middle of the Atlantic as is Orange County. Oslo's flag is near the Persian Gulf. Very cool and helpful otherwise.

  • Jeff
    Jeff posted on Mar 1 - 2008 03:54:12 PM

    While is great for most places, it leaves some out, that's what was used. As for Orange Country being in the middle of the ocean, we left an OC person in charge of placing their hometown, and told 'em the Atlantic was the universe.

  • Jeff
    Jeff posted on Mar 1 - 2008 03:54:44 PM

    http://www.batchgeocode.com/ was stripped out in tags, that's the geocoding engine used.

  • Jeff
    Jeff posted on Mar 2 - 2008 10:28:54 AM

    Fixed some. Thanks for the feedback.

  • James
    James posted on Jul 19 - 2008 05:32:49 AM

    It was pretty cool.