I believe that in the past there have been "where are we?" threads used to try to locate other LWers, and possibly also a map. These things need constant maintenance as people move, disappear, etc. And they do not get this maintenance. So they're only useful for a few months at a time, at a guess.

I've been thinking that a solution might be for people to enter their location and email address in a webapp, and once a month they get an email asking them to confirm that they're still there. They can either stay in the same place or remove themselves with a single click, I'm not sure what the default should be if they ignore. Or they can update to a new location.

I have more thoughts on this, but any feedback on the idea?

Another possible solution would be an official LW map based on the locations in our profiles, possibly ignoring inactive accounts. This would require integration, which might make it harder than a standalone app; in particular, I might make the standalone app but the inconvenience of setting up to work on the reddit codebase makes me unlikely to make an integrated one.

Again, I have more thoughts but would appreciate yours first.