This would be such a cool feature.... :up:

Honestly, I think a better way of going about a hack like this is just to have a map of the globe, and let each user place a pin on the map where they want their location to be, and then when you hover over it it will say the username + the city/country (if applicable) they live in. Then one someone clicks on the map it just echos all this information that prestored. I had a hack like this on differet bb software and it worked great.

thanks ive needed this hack for a long time im going to install it.

Wouldnt it be easier to make it show what planet people are from in our solar system? :p

Wouldn't it be funnier to be a mod of this forum and delete such postings? :devious:

Cheers,

Would love for the US map :-D

Pseudomizer - thats an excellent idea i must say.

I was having a think .... what if you left the people on their boards select the map they want ... and have a dropdown with locations on it that the Admin can specify using an small sql table .... like say 3 or 4 bits of info ... dropdown location, Xvector , Y vector. This would mean there would be less locations available to the user ,and the admin could set where on the chosen map drop down was.

Im not sure what you have done already , but the idea is excellent , and id love to see you get this working properly.

Thanks for the efforts either way

Hello DjTaz,

i have a problem at the moment. Please read the following posting first https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....3&postcount=76 and then i can tell you that this new system i have found is based on the german map only. I have not found any US maps so far for this specific system.

In addition i receive complaints about my BETA version because many people do not have access to the PEAR section of the webserver and their providers are declining installing it.

I am back to the roots at the moment evaluating multiple systems which can handle heavy load. My version can NOT handle heavy load without killing the SQL server in terms of performance.

Best regards,

Some like this is what you need?

http://www.infoplease.com/states.html

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/

http://www.lightningstorm.com/tux/js...splay_free.jsp

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es

Something like that? Hopefully :-/

<a href="http://monarch.tamu.edu/~maps2/us.htm" target="_blank">http://monarch.tamu.edu/~maps2/us.htm</a> just found this one, this might interest you :-D

Anything further on this ? (not to be bugging ya .. just curious) ..

Id be delighted to see this working .. Im not in the U.S. myself anyway , im in Ireland

Then please read the threads where i talked about UK and how to gather the required infos and maps. Without them nothing can be done. I am living in germany and i can not collect the information for other countries. This is your part.

Cheers,

There's a Member Map hack for InvisionBoard that seems to work fairly well, if some of you guru's want to try to port it to vBulletin.

Someone sent it to me. (Attached)

Hi I am new to vBulletin - just installed it - and I am importing over my old YaBB site - thought I'd share a 'member map' mod I installed on my old board:

http://www.3reef.com/cgi-bin/yabb/Ya...all;defmap=usa

The way this works is javascript/dhtml and some flat files... but basically a member goes to the right map and uses the mouse to 'pin' a pushpin on it. The coordinates are saved in their profile. This might be an easier approach than the zip code thing. :lick:

Yeah, that's the way the one for InvisionBoard that I posted works. The user places their own pushpin.

Ahhh well there you go.. I do think that would be easier.

someone port this please

Ok guys. Just to make one thing clear. I will not release any map hack with placing pins on a map. This has been discussed before and this is not my intention of this map hack.

If you need someone to convert these map hacks from other boards to VB then good luck, but I will not do it for sure.

My current solution works for Germany and UK with the limitation of up to 2000 users. A new solution will come in this year with a better performing solution but until then that's it.

Best regards,

Pseudomizer

How about this? http://www.thedigitalmapstore.com/Fr..._database.html
It's a couple of years out of date but worth a shot me thinks.
Let's get this thing going again! :devious:
One other idea - google maps and the other mapping services online all use geo data to calculate directions and display maps etc. google maps may even have an sdk or even an api for their service. Just a thought - might be worthwhile investigating.

Coooool Hack!

The 2.2 World Map works like a charm for 3.0.7 boards if you follow the instructions in this thread: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...205#post745205

Sorry, but why should users place a PIN and enter their information again? They did it already during registration by entering their ZIP code. This hack provides map details by using the ZIP codes. No placing of PINs required.

Ok, it's flash and nothing special.

Thanks for this link but I know many of these manual map methods and I kicked all of them.

Cheers,

My post was in response to those seeking a map for the US, Canada, Latin America or Europe besides the few countries you've included.

Until you include those maps, it seems to me that the 2.2 hack is the best available, certainly for any board with an international membership...

Your hack is great. And when it includes the rest of the world will be wonderful.

I agree completely. Whatever solution comes out will have to include the rest of the world for it to be embraced by the whole vBulletin community. This is especially true because vBulletin was developed in Great Britain. I, myself, live in Canada and, though my board has a large American membership, would definitely like Canadian postal codes included.

I will try to find latitude/longitude & postal code information for Canada as well as the rest of the world and will post it here once I find it.

- Sid