Help? Anybody?
Please?

Ugh! OK I'll try for help some other way....

Anyone knows if it works with vb 3.7 ?!?!

Works here on 3.7.0 Gold :D

Me too. Works great.

Where do you set the permissions for this?

I figured out why my pins are disappearing...

Any title that has a "&" in it makes it do that. I have edited them out but when the CHRON job runs every hour, the MARKERS.XML file changes again and the pins disappear.

I just installed in my 3.7.0 - markers.xml is set 777, the registered Users + Mods + Admins have rights. But in the Main-Map I don't see the Pins?
Going back to "Your Entry" I see them :confused:

Weired, but looks nice till this point! Can't wait to have it running well!

P.S.: The dasboard also doesn't show values... Is it possible to deactivate the dashboard?


P.P.S.: Works now - it seems it needed a night to calm down on the Server :rolleyes: :D

I don't know if this already posted but I found something out...

If you can't see markers on the map although you set 777 to the markes.xml file, be sure you use for "URL of the image for the marker" a URL to a graphic file!

I noticed that some users try to add the URL of there avatar image, which is normaly something like "image.php?u=99999&dateline=1138152917". This won't work and cause that there're no markers on the map.

I hope you understand what I mean :cool:.

How would I turn the following part of this: 'URL of the image for the marker', if someone and most do enter the wron URL it screws up and doesn't display anything. Then I have to look through 300 pins and find who entered an invalid URL to get it back working.

Thanks
RON

yea I just updated mine too (vb 3.7) and now ALL of the markers dont show.
before I updated it all was showin.......


now...... nope.
and i checked the image urls.... all legit......:rolleyes:

hello works for me in 3.70:D

I just installed this and everything seemed to go smoothly....

But, then when I click on ME Full View I get an error that says "No Elements Available".

What am I doing wrong?

Please excuse me if this is addressed in the 80 pages of comments on the 3.5 and 3.6 version of this Product. I just upgraded from version 2.01 (it was very old, installed on a 3.5 beta install) now that our forum was upgraded to vBulletin 3.7. I see all the entries in the AdminCP >> ME Full View and when I run the scheduled task write out to the XML file I can see the entries are added properly. The issue is the map does not have any markers on it, it's just blank. I can click on my entry and it updates but it still does not show up on the map (it's still blank, just a map, no markers).

Where should I look now to try and troubleshoot this?

Also, is it possible to buy a branding free version of this?

Did you try doing this?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=697

That seems to be a workable solution if you don't have members all over the world. Or if you're country is supported. I see Stonyarc was online here in May 2008, but apparently he has chosen not to comment on this mod.

Thanks for pointing that out. It looks like the code in the .zip package has been updated with that code.

I can see the XML marker is bring written to and the data looks clean. I will have to get a programmer to look at this form me next week. If the fix is something worthy of posting I will post it here in case it can help someone else.

In Admincp > Languages and Phrases > Phrase Manager > Search in Phrases - at the bottom of the page. Editing a phrase here will change how it is displayed on your forum.

No, the .zip package does not have that fix in it. I had to add it after I downloaded the file a few days ago.

I looked in the database and found two pimage entries which weren't in the right format and it only took a few minutes to find them - but you have to be very careful when you access your database. googlemapme is the table.

I installed this on vb3.7.1. It works with exception to the field for the url to the marker image. Not sure why you are leaving this up to the user to fill in when they wouldn't have a clue as to what to put in there. I went ahead and filled in what I "thought" should go in there for my entry. Everything seems to save successfully however when I go back to look at the map, no markers show up.

I noticed there was a manual patch indicated several posts back for preventing members from putting in the wrong value (I'm guessing for this marker image url). I made the changes to both files and uploaded the files to my server. I can't tell if it protects the XML file though.

Any thoughts?

After editing vbgooglemapme_cron.php on line 43

to simply

I was able to eliminate any errors in the markers.xml file
but the only way I can get the markers to appear is to click on [Your Entry] and then Update your information on the bottom of the vbgooglemapme.php page.

Once I update my information, without changing anything, it's fine until the next time the cron runs.
Any ideas?

You need to not allow images and take the pimage line out of the template so they can't upload images.

I see the mention about running the scheduled task...thing is, i don't have a scheduled task for this...

I'm guessing that's a problem.

can someone tell me what it should be called? or what I need to do to set it up?

I should also note that I've tried the modifications mentioned by ZeroHour here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=697

But when I apply those mods then try and view the page, it's blank.

ANY help anyone could provide would be appreciated!

I finally, after almost a year, disabled the cron job and my map is working fine. I autoapprove the locations, but you have to be a member to plot your location.
Member maps at the Ministry of Rum

Here's an excerpt of my markers.xml file
Hope this helps someone.

What does the cron job do? I've never looked.

AH HA!

The issue is the ability for users to add in their own image.

I deleted these links and voila! the markers showed up!

To prevent any users from entering this and screwing up the map again, I did the following:

in template: vbgooglemapme_display_yourlocation and vbgooglemapme_set_yourlocation

find and delete:

This completely removes the text and the box from showing on the pages which will prevent ANY user from entering that information, which would subsequently cause the plug-in to crash.

I hope this helps some others!

All I did to figure this out was to search the phrases for for the text that was shown there to find out how it was called, then I just searched all the templates for that call.

Does anyone know if there will be an update soon? I'm waiting about six month now because I thought there might be a new release soon.

It doesn't look like this is being supported anymore so you are on your own as are the rest of us, it seems. I am in the process of writing my own version since this one is no longer being supported. I will let you know when I have something to test.

btw - there are a number of fixes posted within the thread that should make it work for just about anyone

Fixing it to make it work and removing all the bugs is 2 different things. ;)

Just a follow up for those who may have the same issue..

I looked into this for Andy and the main problem here was that the server was serving xml files as an application/octet-stream content, whereas it should have been text/xml.

Adjusted the servers conf file and added the proper mime type and it resolved the issue. A quick look at the javascript error log in my browser told me that xmlDoc had no properties. That was the red flag, so I validated the markers.xml file at http://validator.w3.org/ which quickly pointed out the error.

Not everyone has access to their server's conf file.

This is so long overdue. With all the progress in the mapping space, I cannot believe others have not stepped forward a long time ago. Boofo...I'm sure I speak for many but I can't wait to see what you come up with.

After spending a lot of time on this plug-in, I disabled the cron and now it works pretty well. The update was the problem since I didn't think of the server config solution.

ADMINCP > Scheduled Tasks > disable GoogleMap ME Cron

Is there a way to get a map of just California in the USA? Our members are mostly in So.Cal.

it works for me thanks a lot

OK i found a solution..about IE7 markers problems
The prob is : Marker Title
-Special caracter not reconized on IE7 like "?" for eg.
-Edit the user who put a special caracter on "Marker title" and replace it with a normal one (for eg "a" instead"?")
so you can see markers on IE.

If have try all solutions posted above and the only one who work is this one.. :(

Of course u can add a warning about that for prevent users on your template.

Waiting on a fix - thx for all

note : soz for my english coz i'm french noob ;) and use Firefox ^^

if you're waiting for a fix, you're going to be waiting for a while...

Thats good to hear and i look forward to it.

Thank you very much.