OK, I installed this and I configured it. I do not see anything different in the forums. What am I supposed to see? I went through the UserCP, the posting screens. I see nothing new.

It doesn't add anything new. It adds the ability to parse address into a Google Map using BBCode.

Hey folks.... I found this lovely add-on today. As others, I got the "Invalid Address" error as Yahoo is now requiring keys similar to google. So, in a fit of coding fury, I hacked up the code....switching the yahoo geocoding functionality over to google.

This is now working for me. I cannot guarantee it will work for you.

I am happy to work with the original author as well to get this "officially" posted here so that it will show up as updatable, etc, in vbulletin.

Enjoy!

how would we go about 'fixing' our install with that file?

1. Download my XML file to your computer.
2. Login to the vBulletin admin interface.
3. Go to Plugins & Products > Manage Products.
4. Click [Add/Import Product] at the bottom of the list of installed products.
5. Click browse, select my XML file that you downloaded to your computer.
6. Choose Yes for the option Allow Overwrite.
7. Hit Import.
8. Go to vBulletin Options > Phoogle Settings.
9. Replace the Geocode API URL with this value: http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?output=xml
10. Hit Save.

Go to a post now and try to create some map BBCODE (as described above). When you preview / submit your post you should not see a map....

I am interested in using this but is the only map that will be displayed from the API code? Or can anyone use this feature?

I'm not sure what you mean. The API is just what was used to develop this mod. The mod itself adds new BBCode to your forum called [map]. So as long as all your users can use BBCode, then yes, everyone can use it.

Wow. This MOD looks great but not 3.7.2! :( Any chance of getting this updated and support for lat/long?

It works fine 3.7.2 !:up:

Maybe author would add "nl", "oe" and "ie" parms to map url (look here http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq...nguagesupport? ) :p

Can't get it to work in vb 3.7.3 PL1 either. Keep getting the dreaded "invalid address" error. :(