Vossi mentioned on another place he has no geodata for India. So if someone could provide those he maybe would be apple to create a map of India :)

It is possible to remove the state in front of the zipcode, so that people could enter e.g. 10001 for New York instead of NY 10001.

What do the american users think, which way is best and the most easy one for you to use?

@unitedpunjab:
We're still missing the geo's for india. And if somebody has the zipcodes for india then please let us know...

@rjmjr69:
Here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=67

you'll find the usa-map :D

Awesome thanks! No rush for sure, just happy that it is of interest! And the way you presented it sounds great. Surprisingly, I have asked this question of a number of existing map programs, even google maps, and although I have found it is possible in all of them, it never gets mentioned. Yet there are so many community created maps for fictional worlds! Anyways, I look forward to seeing this in the distant future, thank you for the response. ;)

I also mentioned a mod that would use a map in place of who's online. I think that is another idea you could look into. A separate membermap could also take over who's online, or become another option for viewing who's online. Seems like this would be a relatively simple addition to your mod, at least compared my other suggestion!

Zip codes in the US are 00000-0000, but you can just use the first five. So 34056 for example. I don't know as far as Geodata is concerned, but using 78654 will get a letter to the address! (assuming that is actually a real zip code... I just mad it up.)

Robert and I were talking about this alreday. What we think is:

We create an area in which the user can load his (self-)made map. After that, the user can chose points and places on the card where he sets those to an event like cityname or whatever. The locations are getting ficious geodatas which are out of row from the ones used for the normal maps. After the card has been created, it can be saved and loaded right into the vBulletin-Membermap.

Is that the way you thought about, too?
So it might be better for the input of the zip-code without the state (e.g. NY, MI, etc) within in...??? Okay, no problem from our side, we can easily fix this. What does the rest mean?

I think this would be handy. Any chance of a Map for Australia? I can provide the data that you need to build it ie zip codes(post codes in Australia) and i can provide the longitude/latitude details also if you like.

Uzbekistan... possible? :)

Yeah that sounds perfect! I can imagine there will always be ways to improve it, but that sounds like the right idea! :)
Yeah, without the state. There isn't anything I can think of that requires we put the state in. On mail, sure, but that isn't necessarily connected to the zipcode.

The extra four numbers are the postal code actually. Postal codes are extra codes for the post office to use when sorting mail. So technically, a U.S. zip code is just five numbers. :)

Can't wait to use this mod! If you need any help making the United Kingdom map I'd be glad to do what I can! :)

Yes, big chance :D

Attached to this message you'll find a map for australia. For those using it please let us know if the range is OK or if we have to modify it again.
I'll see if we can get the geodata for it... It's on the to-do-list now.
UK will be the next map. What we actually need are the geodatas from Ireland. :o
That sounds quite logical, I'm going to change that today and upload a fixed map as fast as possible.

I am getting a user access permission error when I generate a U.S. map for the first time. I double-checked the install directions and I have everything there and proper CHMOD. Any suggestions? I will try a different map later.

Did you check the usergroups in admincp if the access to the map is correct?

I don?t know about table if u can give me example for any table of any country
so i will be more clear about that
any way maybe google map can be usefull
http://maps.google.com/

thanks

Duh!!! I totally saw where you mentioned that before I installed, but I thought I didn't have to do it until the end. Thanks.

Now I have a bug. On the map page, in 'Own userdata for map-entry:' The county field and 'save entry' button do not show up. So if I enter in my state and zip, then hit enter, they show up for a millisecond as the page refreshes. I had to stop it just as I hit enter and then click save entry. After doing this though, all the fields and buttons show up correctly when refreshed.

Just wondering if the 104 english has been fixed yet. Useing the usa map you can type in a zip code but theres no way to save it.

Thats awesome news, how long does it take you guys to do a map? My members will love this mod!

Is it at all possible to have one map for member locations, and one map that only the admin can enter event locations into?

How long it takes us to do a map? Well... that depends the time our wifes und kids give us! :D

About a seperated map: Actually, it shoudl be possible from it's technic...
Please delete the cache of your browser and then please reload the site again. Which browsers do you use?

It should be a table with the following columns:
name of the place (e.g. Riyadh) | ZIP of the Place | longitude of the plce | latitude of the place

Maybe a table with these two columns would be already enough:
name of the place (e.g. Riyadh) | ZIP of the Place

Here is a short sample of the German geodata-table:

Berlin;14131;DE;52.517;13.4
Berlin;10115;DE;52.532;13.392
Berlin;10117;DE;52.516;13.387
Berlin;10119;DE;52.528;13.411
Berlin;10178;DE;52.523;13.414
Berlin;10179;DE;52.514;13.423
Dresden;01314;DE;51.05;13.75
Dresden;01067;DE;51.05;13.75
Dresden;01069;DE;51.043;13.737
Dresden;01097;DE;51.071;13.74
Hamburg;20095;DE;53.552;10
Hamburg;20097;DE;53.548;10.019
Hamburg;20099;DE;53.55;10
Hamburg;20144;DE;53.574;9.975
Hamburg;20146;DE;53.567;9.98
Hamburg;20148;DE;53.55;10

That's what we need.

maps.google.com can't provide such a table filled with postalcodes. :-(

And we do not like to send every request of postal code
to the Google API, because that would be an external request
for every user wich is making a map-entry.

It is always safer to use only the own, internal system (the own MySQL-Server),
and not the serviced provided by any external company.

That's why we do not use the google map. ;-)

Just downloaded the Aussie map ...

Thanks fellas, great job :)


rotor

Did it work out?

My site is down at the moment. I use Firefox 2, but I didn't even think of trying in IE. I will do both when my site is back up. Thanks.

So do you have to download all those zips in order to get all those countries listed?

Yes.

i am trying to test this at your site, on usa map i put my zip and hit enter, it does not add anything, what am i doing wrong?

You must be a registered user to add your data to the map.

Also Vossi mentioned that there are some problems with the geodata of the US map (character and numbers instead of numbers only).

i did register but did not see the comment on the US map problem, thanks

Super. Look forward to the United Kingdom map with anticipation.

This has been mentioned a number of times here. The problem is the save entry button doesn't show up. First, make sure you are entering in the state abbreviation, space, then your 5 digit zipcode, then the save entry button should show up (ex. wa 99206). If that doesn't work, Vossi told me to dump my browser cache then login again and it worked. So goto your browser's internet options and delete your temp and history files, restart your browser, login and it should show up after you enter your state and zip.

If it still doesn't work, enter your info in, move your mouse cursor to the Stop button in your browser, hit the Enter key, then the Stop button really quickly. The buttons will appear for a second before loading the target, so if you hit stop at the right time they will stay on the page and you can click Save Entry. ;)

Hey Vossi u can check following site for the information u need. It got complete database and geo info.

http://www.mapsofindia.com/pincode/

Thanks for the explanation! :up:

Meanwhile, I re-uploaded the file for US and the state abbreviation doesnt have to be entered anymore :D

How does the US-map work? Are the entries on the map getting shown well?

Cool, thanks. We'll see what we can use from there... :up:

No problem! ;)

Everything seems fine to me, although I haven't tried it with more than one user. Pop-ups are showing, and my previous problem with the save entry button was fixed obviously. I will update with the new map and post any bugs.

Here are some spelling errors and grammar mistakes in the English version, as well as some wording suggestions. I am sure you guys will get to it eventually, and I know I am crazy for bothering, but I thought I would save you some time. I am not a language expert though! Just a fan helping out. I was going to wait until I went through the whole mod, but here is what I have in case I don't end up doing that:

Errors

Suggestions

Hey man... seems to be a great add-on... Can you upload map for Indian Sub continent?(especially Pakistan and India)

They are working on it. :)

The US-map is working now, for testing purpose I moved to Manhattan ;)

Thank you, we will correct that in version 1.0.5 for sure...
We're working in that... Right now, we're fighting with a UK-map...
Cool... and it didn't even cost anything, eh? :eek:

great addons, what about Arabic Gulf Specially Suaid Arabia

thanks

@unitedpunjab and http://www.mapsofindia.com/pincode/
Is it possible for you to get a database-dump of this postal-codes or anything else?
Otherwise we have to typewrite each several postal code in a table...no way! :p
And I believe if I will write a script which can do all the requests automatically
and copy all these postal codes.... I am quite convinced:
their server would go down... :D

@nnjj.net
Please read comment no. 93 and 98...

so how I can get this "geodata-table" that you need?

If you could get a complete list with zipcodes and geo-data already, that would be the best. Atleast we need the zipcodes in a list (no matter which format) to create a geo-database of a country!