PS CS Technique Merge 2 Maps

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Bill_Connelly
Jan 17, 2009
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I have 2 or more World Maps (tiff images) whose backgrounds are essentially the same as I add more maps to the pile.

Each map shows who’s visited my artsite, and I’d like to merge the collection of maps to show all visitors. They change from month to month, as my map marker only saves the most recent 100 visitors.

I’ve tried various things with varying success … for recent example, link to my artsite and look down on the main page for Recent Visitor Map.

Anyone have a technique that works well? nails it?

Need to line up the maps, some being bigger than others, depending on how I saved them, cut and crop. In the future, this could be standardized.

Hints welcomed.

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Ram
Jan 17, 2009
for recent example, link to my artsite and look down on the main page for Recent Visitor Map.

Where is your site?
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Bill_Connelly
Jan 17, 2009
Apologies … my "Signature" on other sites includes it …

It is:

<http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio/>
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Ram
Jan 17, 2009
my "Signature" on other Forums includes it

It’s a good thing you didn’t include it in a signature here. It would have been reported as spam or self promotion and deleted by the forum host.

You can go to forum Preferences and include it there. Then anyone can see it by just clicking on your name in any of your posts. 🙂
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Phosphor
Jan 17, 2009
I have a better idea…

Look around for a better implementation of the Google Maps API site visitor widget.

I’m sure there must be one available that will do a larger accumulation than the most recent 100 visitors.
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Bill_Connelly
Jan 17, 2009
The statistically marked map is coming from:
<http://www.statcounter.com/>

The free use of the counters and other stats like the map, is where the 100 limitation comes from …

I guess I could upgrade to having more folks shown … I just like the free part …

Any hints on Photoshop CS merging … layering … matching up … 2 or more such layering of maps?
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Phosphor
Jan 18, 2009
A quick search using the terms free website visitor maps <http://www.google.com/search?q=free+website+visitor+maps> found this:

<http://www.niftymaps.com/>From the FAQ:

Are there any custom map designs?

Those that have more than 20,000 friends or 100,000 markers on their map will be able to have a special custom map designed. Just let us know and we will get right to work. You will not have to worry about losing any of your current markets either because they will all be transferred to the custom design.

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