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Is there a way to create site markers for locations without having a member tag it? For example, I would like to hardcode some local attractions.

Can this be done in this version?

Can anyone help?

lpetrich

02-04-2009 10:39 AM

One would have to do some extra coding for such markers. In particular:

Code for displaying them
User interface for setting them up
Database interface for storing and retrieving their info

But one might use the existing code as a guide for what coding to do, though I am concerned that doing so will violate StonyArc's copyrights.

I don't have a test forum to work with, so some of you other people will have to code this. But I can help with the Google Maps parts; I can create HTML-page mockups with working code. And while I have some expertise with the Google Maps API, I don't have any with database-interface code. I have an elementary knowledge of SQL, and that's it.

Finally, has anyone tried contacting StonyArc? It would be nice to have his permission for using his code and posting updated archives, if he chooses to give it.

Mark Tomlinson

02-04-2009 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trana (Post 1720747)

Is there a way to create site markers for locations without having a member tag it? For example, I would like to hardcode some local attractions.

Can this be done in this version?

I don't see why you couldn't change the markers.xml directly. Something like this;

Code:

<marker mapid="9999" title_map="Eiffel Tower" lng="-88.246731" lat="42.215226" userid="9999" username="Eiffel Tower" text_map="Eiffel Tower, France" type="blue" pimage="http://mysite.com/forums/images/googlemapme/noimage.png" />

Of course the link to the member's profile will result in a message that the user does not exist. But the rest should work fine.

lpetrich

02-04-2009 05:38 PM

The big problem is that markers.xml gets refreshed by a cron job, and by editing marker info. So one has a choice of:

Doing some coding to support such markers
Creating some sockpuppet accounts whose "locations" are those hardcoded places

carcomp

03-05-2009 04:38 PM

Has the issue been fixed where markers disappear from the map?

lpetrich

03-05-2009 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carcomp (Post 1761209)

Has the issue been fixed where markers disappear from the map?

ZeroHour has come up with a fix over in the vB-3.6 vbGooglemap thread, so you can check there. You'll have to edit some code files and re-upload them, but it works. It turns ' into \', but that's a small price to pay, because fixing that would mean more code rewriting.

ralle007

03-23-2009 04:37 PM

I?ve a problem too :-(
Couldn?t find anything about this problem:

First time, I click the link to the usermap, it works fine, the second time I click on, Iand most of my users) get this message:

Code:

<www.db-forum.de>



Der auf dieser Website verwendete Google Maps API-Schl?ssel wurde f?r eine andere Website registriert. Sie k?nnen unter http://code.google.com/apis/maps/ einen neuen Schl?ssel f?r diese Website erzeugen.



Warning: unserialize() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in [path]/vbgooglemapme.php on line 64

I?ve created the key maybe five or six times, I?ve tried the subdirectory, but the result is always the same.

Has anybody an idea, what the problem is?

Thank you very much..

ralle007

03-27-2009 10:33 PM

Nobody here, who has a similar problem??

vbem2

05-02-2009 02:29 AM

Is there anyway to have it autopost from the user location fields? Say if they were all formatted to zip code or what have you? Thanks.

GrossKopf

06-22-2009 01:33 PM

This was working on my vb 3.8.2, but today all the markers are missing, although it says there are 6 of them...

http://flotgaming.net/forums/vbgooglemapme.php

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