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Actually, your location is determined automatically based off of your IP address. The map displays the majority votes for their respective regions.

I'll email you about the misspelling, though. Thanks.

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Ben, that interactive map that zooms in with all the counties in a state is pretty friggin nifty. Did you make that from scratch with a n ip-to-location data set, or use some kind of location API??

I built everything myself from scratch in regards to the maps. This includes all vector paths (you wouldn't believe how much work this is), JQuery & Raphael interaction. There is also some websockets goodness. 90% of everything is handled in the background then pushed to browsers via websockets (for browser which support them).

To get location I do a variety of things mostly based off of the IP address of a user. However, I've built up a lot of meta data around locations which I may release later on down the road. Happy to talk more if you want to email me.

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