I thought this might interest the hive. The data comes from Google Analytics and shows where our Massachusetts visitors over the past year have been routed from. Sadly, there is no feature to grant public access to the Google data, or we would, however you can as always review our StatCounter reports here (linked in the left margin under BMG Traffic Report.)
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I would think that that big reddish blotch is Boston, but Boston’s on the coast.
They’ve got The Southwick Jog in there perfectly, but they can’t handle things like Boston Harbor, Cape Cod, or the islands…
I’d bet that they include the water boundaries of the state, not just the land boundaries. So, where MA borders another state on land, it’s perfect. However, borders with fresh or freshish water (like a lake) would get a strange drawing, as would borders with sea water. The MA border extends past the coast some distance, and I’d speculate that for some reason Google included that too.
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p>Check a map of Michigan and see what they did with the Lakes as a test case. Of course, testing other coastline states might prove instructive too.
Arlington is the hub of the progressive blogosphere.
Verizon’s servers are scattered around metro Boston, so when I visit my own site from North Falmouth and then go look at my own Analytics I find that someone visited my site from Dedham one day, and Haverhill the next.
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p>So I’ve come to regard the maps from them as useless.
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p>Sorry.