If your stats package doesn’t already do this, it should.
Check out gvisit.com for a neat implementation of Google Maps vs. Your Visitors. The free version tracks the most recent 20.
If you use SiteMeter to track your site stats, they have a somewhat more powerful implementation of the same thing using Flash rather than Google Maps. It allows some pretty granular drill-down into visitor details.
Mapping your visitors
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I like it! I installed it and I am impressed by the integration with Google maps.
The only thing I did not like, one I entered my profile, I am not able to update it. Therefore beware of spelling mistakes!
accuracy for these things drops off pretty dramtically once you go below country level, so i ‘d be cautious about the data no matter who’s providing it.
we (nigel gourlay & me) have had a country level one for cf for years now: http://www.sustainablegis.com/projects/geoLocator/ also seth duffey’s got a nice flash widget to symbolize country level data as well: http://leavethatthingalone.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=BD01D8D3-F19B-9D76-EC6D4DE56D917841
I love gvisit. I have been using some Regular Expressions (PHP) to load my tracks to a flash-file. It works fantastic. Here is my flash-example: http://www.websector.de/games/tetris/
You should try out our package – a more complete statistc tracker + mapping: http://mapstats.blogflux.com/
The SiteMeter version looks pretty sweet. I’m not sure what dataset they’re using behind the scenes, but it does seem fairly sure of itself. They blog about it at http://weblog.sitemeter.com/2005/08/15/visitor-world-map/. There are several related follow-up entries.
I like http://mapstats.blogflux.com too. It’s been a little slow, but they are supposed to be getting new servers
Quite the timing – I got a notification of a comment updated just as we were moving servers – a few things broke, but it should be running lightning smooth from tomorrow
Things always find a way of breaking
Good luck, keep up the good work…