SOME RANDOM CONCLUSIONS
145 people responded to the location poll so far, and of those about 100 were from the US. In comparison, 1090 people responded to "The" Survey this year, with about 520 of them being actual posters on LW (having karma).
Unsurprisingly, the San Francisco area had by far the greatest number of respondents, at 11.
One big surprise for me was Cincinnati, which had 4 respondents. I highly encourage a Cincinnatian to have a meet-up.
Cities with 3 respondents include: San Diego, Salt Lake City, Denver, Chicago, Detroit / Ann Arbor, and Washington DC.
The north Eastern seaboard has a pretty concentrated stripe of responders from Washington to Boston.
I feel sorry for the most isolated responder in Kalispell, MT, who lives 8 hours and 41 minutes from their closest LW neighbor.
New York surprised me by only having 2 respondents. I think the most likely theory is that people from already active LW areas such as NYC, or other areas that already have meetups, are less likely to fill out the survey. People who were looking for meetups, or to find others nearby, were more likely to fill it out.
In other words, people from places like NYC don't NEED to fill out the survey in order to find others nearby, whereas people from Nowheresville do.
Earlier this month, Metus did a post asking for LW-ers locations. I thought it would even more useful to have this information in visual format, so I created a Google map. You can access it on the website below. Unfortunately, I am terrible at this post-writing interface, so I can't get the image of the map to load onto here. You'll have to click the link to view it.
Original Post: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/8sm/where_do_you_live_meetup_planners_want_to_know/
(If you haven't filled out the poll yet, please do it! If more people submit their location info, I'll add them to the map.)
These are only for US locations that had a 5-digit zip-code, or a city name. I may or may not map the other countries. If someone else wants to volunteer, send me a message, and I'll add you as a collaborator to the map, so you can edit.