OK, had a large Calvados and got it working...great hack.
*clicks install*

Bob

I can only enter 30 characters of text, how do I change that?

Bob

I got the map to mark my location no problem, but it wont let any other member on my forums mark their own location.

I made a test account from the same computer and it wont work. When i go to the admin account it works fine.

What do i do?

Map was working fine until yesterday and now all of a sudden when someone clicks on a marker, script error appears as a warning message in bottom toolbar and no markers work !?

help anyone?

still awaiting some advice.....

almost three days and nobody can help me, unbelieveable.

Oddjob
Did you chmod the marker.xml to 777?
Got your googlemap ID from google properly placed in the vbulletion options/ googlemap area?
Anything "wrong" with your registered users permissions?? Something about your users not having the right permissions to post somwhere?
Have you tried disabling, or even removing, the vbgooglemap product, and reinstalling it?
Got those images uploaded to the images/buttons folder of every style?

Not sure if I can help you, but I got mine to work just fine. Usually these things are simple in nature, something that you overlook. I sometimes find that by reinstalling the product (and overwriting) fixes things.

If someone knew the answer they would have responded.
Not sure what is so unbelievable about waiting a few days for a response on a weekend. :confused:

Did you set the file permissions on the marker.xml file to 777 or 766?

Yes, i did.........

Hey oddjob, having the same trouble, cannot enter a location, see the map thats ok...but nada, nish!...thought it may have been a usergroup permissions thing, but nope!...everything has been done, read the posts and installed some bug fix's and profile links etc...just cannot enter anything, tried in IE and FFX and logged in/out etc... dunno what to try next...

EDIT... my buttons were not showing in FFX because i'd uploaded them in the wrong place, they showed the X (broken image) in IE thus i saw what was wrong, re-upped the images, loaded up, found my entry box... carefull of FFX not showing any broken images...dunno about other members for me...

-b6

Oddjob, sure you got your cookies set appropriately? from the instructions, this sounds like you're problemMust have something to do with the way the forum recognizes your users.

Just a thought.

Ok, what settings should my cookies be set as to make this work?

Anyone seen a problem with people using win98 computers and not being able to post their markers? Several of my users with 98 say the map does appear or the can leave their marker.

i've suddenly had some pins disappear from the map - my own included. i've even clicked on 'your entry', and my info is still there. i clicked 'update' for the heck of it, and my pin is still gone..

any ideas?

I have the same problem. When I move the card, some pins disappear. When I zoom into the card, the pins are back.

Strange...

in my case they're gone completely.. even when zoomed in..

Is there a way to create a link to a users marker from thier profile page, with a specific zoom level?

Yeah, that would be good and I wonder if it's possible since 95% of my members are all from the same (tiny!) country....

If you read this whole thread you will find that that is planned for future versions.

oops, posted in wrong thread...

I am using Google Maps as the Meeting Place Finder for the Body of Christ where apostles apoint elders to take care of Scriptural cities (e.g. church of Ephesus in churches of Asia Minor or the church of Fresno in the churches of California).

http://biblocality.com/forums/VBGooglemap.php

Is there an easy way to delete markers? If a user is deleted and they have a marker, how do you delete the marker also?

This is complicated, but this is what I need (making it all automated):

1) The integration I would like to see is with the questions answered when registering to the forum. To be able to put their marker on the map, they need to answer all 17 questions (see registration) with a YES in the User Profile.

2) Also, I would like a second set of 16 questions (after getting the first 17 questions correct) to be optional, but if the person answers all these with a Yes, and they say they are an apostle, then we have no reason to doubt them. They would be responsible for a region of churches like California or Montana or England or Germany, which they get a key code for it. A region would be like Alberta, Canada or Germany or California, etc, based on a reasonable size for apostles to travel from town to town appointing these elders for cities or remote areas.

3) Then I need to link (1) with (2) so that eventually only those in (1) that could put their marker on the map as a meeting place would be if the (2) apostles first gave them approval to do so by appointing the elders for the whole Biblical locality, and the elders who took care of that whole locality, would then appoint sub-elders in many meeting places within that locality. I would like to automate this whole process.

In order for a Biblical locality to be established and to get approval, out in the field, the apostle would tell the appointed elder(s) for that locality where to submit their locality (by coming to the forum and map) and be given a special key code. If that key code matched the key code the apostle was given for getting the 33 questions right, then this opens up the sub-elders (whom are those in 1 above) to be able to submit their meeting places under the elder for the whole locality. It is all founded on the apostles that agree in these 33 questions.

The map is only useful for the meeting places themselves, not for keeping track of the apostles for regions and the elders for each Biblical locality, unless there could be a set of markers for one level on the map of regions, another level of markers on the map for cities and another level on the map for meeting places within cities. Each meeting place needs to link to their respective elder for their Biblical locality and apostles for their reigion.

If any of this is not clear just ask. There is essentially 3 levels:
1) regional apostles (33 questions)
2) Biblical locality elders (at least 17 questions)
3) Sub-elders for the many meeting places in the Biblical locality

I've been using this for a while, but today all of a sudden I am getting this error
I already registered? Wht this error?

bchawla, are you using your own googlemap key?

Hi

Is there a way that it can be done so that the new user at registration has to mark it on the map? Although i think it might be a lot of work :(

I've got a lot of themes on my site and in certain ones the map, satellite and hybrid legends aren't visible, i guess its to do with css , which part of the css controls the colour of those legends please??

tnx

My first attempt at helping out here, its a simple FAQ addition using the existing screenshots and wording. Easy to install just up the 4 images to forum/images folder edit one bit of the code from yoursite.com to the name of your website then copy and paste the html once you've created a new FAQ in Admin CP > FAQ manager.

Thanks Gizmo999, nice one. Installed.

Bob

Is there anyway to have this automatically enter a person when they register using their zipcode in their profile?

Also anyway for an avatar to display, when you move over the marker?

Is here any way of adding hotspots such as meeting places or event venues without it being a user?? Different colored balloons for this would be useful as well.

Hi,

here http://www.swishzone.de/VBGooglemap.php?do=showmain
I can see my pin in IE, but in FF 1.5 no way.. delete cache and close browser...i dont see the pins...have you any hints for me??

Thank you

A Meeting Place Finder for the Church

Eventually it would be cool if the programming restricts anyone from entering their meeting place on the map if they don't have all 18 question right (under Edit Profile from registrating) and don't have a key code from an elder of that locality they are in.

http://biblocality.com/forums/VBGooglemap.php

As soon as someone answers all 33 questions (15 additional questions not at registration) as Yes, they would then be prompted with their interest in being an apostle (all automated). If they agreed to the prompt, they would then be told their responsibility, if they are truly commissioned by God, is to appoint elders for Biblical localities. They would receive a key code they should give to elders they appoint for the localities in their region.

We might not even need to keep track of any information on apostles (just their keycodes), since they will be out in the field doing their thing and those that respond back would inevitibly be not the elders, but the sub-elders of meeting places, since the elders would receive the key code from from the apostles, and the elders would give the key code to the sub-elders to submit their meeting places back at the Meeting Place Finder.

Sounds like fantasy I know, but these are the earliest of beginning days in what we are doing according to Biblical locality.

I hope the programmer sees this.

Anything new coming up?
I'd love to be able to rollover a pin and see the username.
Another nice thing would be able to click on the username and see their profile and homepage.
There's cash money in it. :)

I'm interested in this as well. I run an Offroad site and want to include pins for known offroad parks.
I tried some obvious text editing things that did not work. I added new lines and changed the username, text, and lat / long. those lines were deleted upon loading googlemap.php I added a new line and edited all fields but username, and those lines were also deleted on loading.

Although I hate to hack at the usernames table, I'm considering it.

forgot to mention...
I used http://www.zipinfo.com/search/zipcode.htm to get a bearing on a beginning lat / long. the site accepts zip+4 for US addresses. Once the Beginning lat / long and an appropriate zoom level is defined most users can easily set their marker.

hack looks good... cant wait for the zip code intergration... city/state/country would be nice but i think zip code is our biggest need since we're based in the US only.

thanks for all of your hard work and ill keep an eye outfor the zip code release!

Just clicked install! Great hack just a quick question / request forgive me if they've already been answered I didn't feel like reading through all 500+ posts.

Can a members Pin display their avatar which would link to their profile, and if they don't have an avatar display a text link to their profile?

You can always search the thread.

I installed this plugin, and made sure I read and followed the steps in your instructions. However, when I clicked on the Googlemap link in my navbar, I got this message:

What happened, or what have I done wrong?

great hack :D how goes work on version 1.4 ? also is it possible to get it to auto put users avatars into pins if they have an avatar?

Absoloutely amazing work. Well done.