It is in the templates. I would edit the xml file and reimport it ;)

This site will give exact cordinates. dont know if it was mentioned in here anywhere or not

http://www.maporama.com/share/

maporama was not mentioned here but other simular sites.

Problem is I cannot bother everyone with a huge more geocode database on every install.

To give you an example only to service Belgium the data is about 798 Mb. So as long as nobody has a spare Oracle DB server or something this is just not feasible.

If we have a webservice fine, I could also leach on google servers and parse an address string from them but that is illegal.

So can I solved, yes. by creating a commercial one where you buy a webservice license for geocoding. But not just of the top of my hat, voodoo magic. The coding itself is "relatively" simple.

zipcodes alone won't do the trick because all your users in the same region will have the same marker. In maporama terms you need a PointAddress Web Service (Convert a physical address into latitude/longitude coordinates). I'm looking for a good free one but haven't found a good one yet. Moreover this causes privacy issues and coppa problems. So you have to be really careful when creating such a map.

FYI, this is not illegal in the US depending on how its implemented, certainly not if its volunteered info. (I mean, you can already mark you HOUSE with this so........ ;))

zip+4 is as far as its allowed from a marketing perspective (eg: direct mail).

zip codes would be a great addition, but yah...globally implemented you'd need partners for infrasturcture (and I'm in korea, so I'd love it but don't expect you to be able to cover db info here... ironically though..I HAVE ACCESS TO THIS!!--being in a related job field---in fact...maybe we should talk. heh. webservices etc etc. I could maybe get you start with this data in Korea...its VERY VERY advanced here for this stuff (more so than in the states actually. just a thought) ;)

in anycase, the business implications of this kind of program could be HUGE btw. I'm alllll for seeing this go as far as it could.

keep up the great work. :)

(and don't forget whatever you do...please keep it fully phrased!! I'd much appreciated THAT :D)

sorry..I know I'm getting WWAAAAY ahead here but.... you know what would absolutely RULE and be fun!!??!!

if you could do a smugmug maps type thing... (http://maps.smugmug.com) and have it work with vbaGallery (or attachment pics). that would .....well....... kick soooooo much arse and create a very "sticky" site. :D :D

just a thought. :)

First of all; great hack.

Secondly; after I installed the hack worked for like 10 minutes but after that everything disappeared; you can't see a single pin on the map anymore and you can't add new either (well, it says you can add and it was successfull and such but it doesn't show up). Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Yorixz,

Please post a link so I can check the XML file. It's probably a bad character in someone's textfile.

That is for all of you. If you want me to check please include a link.

I've opened it myself and it looks like it doesn't handle <'s and "s real good; maybe make it so they're replaced by their HTML-code?

Hello,

It's the jinto line that is causing the problem "<" character.

I'll fix this in the next version.

For now just go to phpmyadmin / your vbulletin database / googlemap table and just remove the < character from the line of Jinto

or ask the user to edit his entry.
Don't forget to restart your browser after the edit to see if it worked.
It should be fine after that.

/edit

The version now online should fix it on first entry

Thanks a lot, I'll upgrade.