First of all, you need software to set up a WWW-server. Here, NCSA's httpd is used which is easy to install and occupies very little disk space. Furthermore, to be able to set up clickable maps you need to know several things about imagemapping. On the graphics side, you need some applications to be able to manipulate pictures and drawings. Here, Xpaint (a simple drawing package under X-Windows) and XV (an interactive image displayer under X-Windows) are used. Both are available from the ftp.x.org ftp-site.

In principal only main servers of a site are added to the overview. In the case of universities, only the main university server is added and servers set up by different faculties are not added but should be referenced from the main server. In the case of companies which rent space of their server to other companies or individuals, pages will be judged on a individual basis. I hope people will understand that it is (will become) impossible to add each page to the maps; first of all because of the lack of space on the maps but more importantly because finding information would become very difficult.

Several people already have sent me comments about the way WWW-server are collected in these pages. Of course, you are right when you say that actually you don't want to know where a certain server is located, you just want to get there. However, since I first set up these pages, it has become very popular (currently over 3000 requests per day) and it seems lots of people use the pages to surf the net in the Netherlands. I will keep collecting and adding new servers to the maps as long as reasonable number of people keep using them.

Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Enjoy....