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CarKnee
Junior Member
USA
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 Posted - 15 August 2005 : 14:33:32
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This mod was created to display the location of members on a Google Map.
It will only work if:
1. The Member has City, State (2 letter abbreviation), and Country filled in their profile.
2. Country MUST be USA. It will not work with any other country!
3. The City and State combination must exist in the GEOCODE database. Not every City is in the database!
Demo: http://www.rswarrior.com/forums/MemberMap.asp
It has been tested with with Snitz 3.4.05 & SQL Server 2000
Download Here:
http://www.snitzbitz.com/mods/details.asp?Version=All&mid=214< |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
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Posted - 15 August 2005 : 18:28:43
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| I'll try to get this up and running in the near future and let you know if I find anything weird with Access. I'm very excited about it. Well done!< |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
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jeffery
Junior Member
USA
176 Posts |
Posted - 15 August 2005 : 19:07:42
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Very nice. I have it working fine on my site. I wish I had more users to show on it :)
Thanks Carknee.< |
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 15 August 2005 : 22:33:38
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Nicely done and I thank you! I didn't realize Google had an API out there for the maps or I would have been messing with this a long time ago!
I've got mine up and running here: http://www.snowmobilefanatics.com/members/membermap.asp
Now I need to impliment a "locate member" feature so by clicking on a link in a profile or forum post it will bring up the map with themself already highlighted in the little box dealy..at a decent zoom level.< |
Erick
Snowmobile Fanatics
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Bassman
Junior Member
Netherlands
256 Posts |
Posted - 16 August 2005 : 03:18:01
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| This is a super mod, Shame you can't use it in europe.< |
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CarKnee
Junior Member
USA
297 Posts |
Posted - 16 August 2005 : 07:49:44
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Originally posted by sr_erick
Nicely done and I thank you! I didn't realize Google had an API out there for the maps or I would have been messing with this a long time ago!
I've got mine up and running here: http://www.snowmobilefanatics.com/members/membermap.asp
Now I need to impliment a "locate member" feature so by clicking on a link in a profile or forum post it will bring up the map with themself already highlighted in the little box dealy..at a decent zoom level.
You seem to be missing the <div id="map" style="width:728px; height: 500px"></div> on your page.
This mod is just a basic implementation of what can be done. My site has a bit more done with this including what you are asking about. for example, http://www.rswarrior.com/forums/MemberMap.asp?MID=2 will show where member #2 is located.
Have fun with it ;)
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CarKnee
Junior Member
USA
297 Posts |
Posted - 16 August 2005 : 07:54:32
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Originally posted by Bassman
This is a super mod, Shame you can't use it in europe.
I know. I wish there were free Geocode services for Europe and the rest of the world.< |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
6780 Posts |
Posted - 16 August 2005 : 08:03:02
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Carknee, would this be any use?
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CarKnee
Junior Member
USA
297 Posts |
Posted - 16 August 2005 : 08:18:13
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Originally posted by Shaggy
Carknee, would this be any use?
I don't think so... even they don't have what I am looking for. This page has a link to find the lat and long of US addresses, not European addresses.
I am looking for something like this http://geocoder.us/
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
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Posted - 16 August 2005 : 08:27:53
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Ah, OK, I get you know, your code is looking up the address, I thought you had your members manually entering their coordinates in their profiles.
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“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the
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CarKnee
Junior Member
USA
297 Posts |
Posted - 16 August 2005 : 08:32:44
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Correct. For US Citites and States it is an automatic lookup.
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I thought you had your members manually entering their coordinates in their profiles.
I am thinking of adding that in for non-US countries so they can use it too. I probably have a hundred or so members outside of the US and they want it. ;)
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 16 August 2005 : 10:00:02
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quote:
Originally posted by CarKnee
quote:
Originally posted by sr_erick
Nicely done and I thank you! I didn't realize Google had an API out there for the maps or I would have been messing with this a long time ago!
I've got mine up and running here: http://www.snowmobilefanatics.com/members/membermap.asp
Now I need to impliment a "locate member" feature so by clicking on a link in a profile or forum post it will bring up the map with themself already highlighted in the little box dealy..at a decent zoom level.
You seem to be missing the <div id="map" style="width:728px; height: 500px"></div> on your page.
This mod is just a basic implementation of what can be done. My site has a bit more done with this including what you are asking about. for example, http://www.rswarrior.com/forums/MemberMap.asp?MID=2 will show where member #2 is located.
Have fun with it ;)
Missing the div?? No?? I have it in there, otherwise the map will not work. I changed the width value to a fluid percentage, that's it. I will get on the member locator today. I've looked through the code and it all seems simple enough.< |
Erick
Snowmobile Fanatics
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CarKnee
Junior Member
USA
297 Posts |
Posted - 16 August 2005 : 11:53:17
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Originally posted by sr_erick
Missing the div?? No?? I have it in there, otherwise the map will not work. I changed the width value to a fluid percentage, that's it. I will get on the member locator today. I've looked through the code and it all seems simple enough.
My bad... I think I was looking at the wrong URL.
Anyways... I see you updated your JS code to the version I am using on my site. I was successfully able to bump up the number of pins to 500 and it didn't crash the browser, so you may want to try that too (in the Data file).< |
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
1318 Posts |
Posted - 16 August 2005 : 12:11:44
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| Yea I wanted to use the green pins because they were smaller so I took those bits and pieces. I'll bump it up a bit and see what happens.< |
Erick
Snowmobile Fanatics
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scorpswolle
Starting Member
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
1318 Posts |
Posted - 17 August 2005 : 01:09:37
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| Ok, a small concern. I'm thinking of a way to work around something I found. If two people are in the same city (the exact same coordinates), the last one in the XML file is the one that is listed on the map. I wonder what should happen when this happens? How can we get multiple people per city?< |
Erick
Snowmobile Fanatics
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