Thanks to those who participated! I used your results to tweak the city-choosing algorithm. It is now implemented in the live NUKEMAP.https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1144970009774567425 …
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For the US it gives a plausible distribution. I'm less familiar with Europe so it's harder for me to say (but I didn't want to just pick capitals as targets), but it seems to be OK. Goal here is not to be perfect, just to start the user in a sensible place.pic.twitter.com/W7q5xdf6q4
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I may tweak the city list as time goes by; it is just a database and is easy to change/update/etc. I opted not to choose non-city targets for the initial start point; I thought it would be confusing to people to have it be a random military base.
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It would be easier to add more cities; the tricky thing is that because IP information is so inaccurate, it would be putting people in pretty random places. So I tried to make it "the largest city in the region with at least 200,000 people, or the national capital."
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How about towns that were likely to be targeted? I grew up near Cheltenham in the UK, which being the home of GCHQ, was certainly a target. (Probably still is.)
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I think it would be confusing to people to start off in places that aren't obviously targets by their sheer size. I'd rather do a "possible targets" app as a separate thing (it's something I've been thinking about for a long while, even longer than NUKEMAP!).
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