Sorry that this free, unsupported, beta modification (and myself) couldn't live up to your high expectations.

I develop modifications to work on my forums -- and guess what? They do. When I release them here, I always release them as unsupported. However, when possible, I will try and address specific situations and concerns posted by users. I've been in contact with Tralala since the conception via private messages as well as public replies. Why him? Because he provides detailed, consistent information making my job of fixing things easier.

I'm sorry that this didn't work for you, but there are apparently at least 42 other people who seem to think it works well enough.

For the record, I've never came back simply because I've never been gone. There's a new release in the works that will address as many issues as I could fit in -- most of which were reported by Tralala via PM, whom I've been in constant contact with.

Just a big open white space!
Like so many others have posted before me!!
Pity as it is a nice idea!

Well, that's not very helpful.

READ THIS

Nice hack. Installed and working (IE7). A little quirky with the refresh's, but I can live with it. Thanks for your hard work, I look forward to see any additional features you decide to add.

Thanks! That worked well.

This looks like a great mod, especially for an urban planning site like mine, but I'm going to wait a bit before I try installing it again. I appreciate the work you've put into it.

There is no one who wanted this mod to work more than me, and my comment above wasnt an indictment of you or your skills... sorry if you took it that way.

The preceeding conversations about WHY it was not working with IE7 showed that a group of users who also wanted this to work were frustrated that they also couldnt get what is otherwise a GREAT mod.

I encourage you to keep doing great things... dont take comments personally.... When it comes to IE7, this free mod is, indeed, dead on its ass. There is nothing unfactual about that and since it works on your board using your browsers, there is understandably no impetus to further develop it.

Will be the FIRST to donate when a working IE7 version hits the streets.

Regards

It's working on IE7 on my site. No problems so far.

As mentioned before, it's working on IE7 on my site, too.

Be glad. Wonder why so many others are inop??

So many others? I see 48 installs... and only two folks complaining here about MSIE7 issues. Both of these two have custom skins installed.

Even still, those two have been publicly countered with reports of success by others. Yes, this hack is working for lots of people, in the vB and custom skins, in all the major browsers.

I'm sure you're frustrated by the incompatibility with your custom skin, but calling this entire project "dead on its ass" as a result is a bit tacky, and over-the-top, don't you think? There's an incompatibility with your custom skin; focus on that instead. Work politely with magnus, and perhaps he will help you with the specific incompatibility with your custom skin that is specific to your forum.

He'll learn... I used to be the same way. Probably something to do with his host. I was using Powwebsux for a long time and would blame most of my issues on the mods I was installing. Then I changed hosts and voila'! All of my headaches seamed to have vanished.

Since you're getting a blank page, I am thinking the memory settings on your host are a bit too low. Why not report back what those memory settings are. Then, we might be able to provide you with something to bring back to your host to ask them to change. If you're paying 3bux a month for a host, that may not be an option.

I sent you this reply 10 days ago.


For everyone else, I'm trying to squeeze out a new release this week. There's a bunch of new handling changes which sort of smooths things out a bit. I'm really jammed up with work right now, so I'm trying to do some juggling. I'll keep everyone updated.

:eek:

-sigh-

Allow me to edit my comment above. Doctor Death, I'm sure you're frustrated by the incompatibility you're experiencing. But calling this entire project "dead on its ass" as a result -- while being uncooperative and unwilling to provide feedback to magnus after he delivered a specific test app for you to use in order to better assist with troubleshooting -- is incredibly innappropriate, over-the-top, and downright troll-ish.

Thank you, magnus. Take your time. Looking forward to the next release. :up:

Nice1

whats New with this hack

Any Updates?

Great Mod! (just installed, works). Wish there was a way to easily get directions to or from the point that was listed on the map, and I apologize if this already works and I just didni't see it when I installed it.

sick ill be using this thanks for your hard work :D

Update:
v2.0 Beta 1

• Proper error handling. Will now verify address (and make reccomended changes) before submitting.
• Javascript will not be loaded on pages that do not have maps (woops!)
• Few internal tweaks to (hopefully) speed things up.

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Better late than never. :)

This isn't the release I hoped to get out, but it's something. This should address the more major concerns I've received thus far. I'm still toiling away, and I'll get more out as soon as it's ready.

Remember, if you're having problems please read this post first!

Woo hoo! Thanks, magnus, was starting to wonder about this. :) Updating now.


EDIT: Minor issue. I was typing up a post to explain to my forum's members how to use this new feature. I typed

...and got an error that the address was invalid. The [map] tag isn't respecting the [noparse] tag, I'm thinking.

[QUOTE=Tralala;1223445]Woo hoo! Thanks, magnus, was starting to wonder about this. :) Updating now.


EDIT: Minor issue. I was typing up a post to explain to my forum's members how to use this new feature. I typed

...and got an error that the address was invalid. The [map] tag isn't respecting the [noparse] tag, I'm thinking.[/QUOTE]

Hrm. That's going to be a wee bit tricky, too.. being as this isn't parsed like normal BBCode. Adding it to the list, let me see if I can find a quick workaround.

Update:
v2.0 Beta 2

• Plays nice with the [noparse][/noparse] tags. (thanks Tralala)

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Remember, if you're having problems please read this post first!

Now that's what I call fast service. :) Much appreciated... eager to see what's up your sleeve for the next release.

I seem to be having problems with UK addresses, is this a GoogleMap problem and the problem with UK licences rather then your add-on?

ETA: Rather rude of me not to have said thanks for the latest version that seems to be working well.

Could you provide the address in question? I've tested in with various addresses in the UK and it seemed to work.

-- edit -- never mind, solved problem :)

An example would be:

Cookham, Berkshire, United Kingdom

That's an actual physical address? This plots addresses, not general city locations.

Well that is a general town location but it should be able to map a town shouldn't it?

Anyway here is a perfectly correct UK address:

146 Hope Street, Leigh, Greater Manchester, WN7 1NR, UK

(Try it in the web version of Goggle Maps to see where it should map to.)

If I use that address I get the attached map, which in fact I seem to get for most UK addresses I try.

Hi,
work this Mod with German Adresses ?

It should work with any address. It uses Yahoo to validate the address and Google to plot it. So, if you can put an address into Yahoo! Maps then it will work in Phoogle.

Hi, thx.
it works at 75 % :)
yahoo cannot find the streetnames :(

But the rest works.

Ah this is probably the problem I'm seeing with UK addresses - it seems http://maps.yahoo.com can't locate UK street addresses, the best it can do is return the centre of a town. http://uk.local.yahoo.com/maps/ however does do UK address searching.

For those keeping score at home, I've implemented the GoogleAPI for geocoding into the development version of Phoogle. Catch is, Google doesn't return errors for invalid addresses.

I'm probably going to allow the geocoding source to be defined by the user, so you'll have the choice between YahooAPI (with error reporting) and GoogleAPI (without error reporting). I'm trying to find a workaroung, so I'll keep everyone updated.

WOW is all I have to say. I love it Worked the first time I installed it without any issues at ALL.
Only one thing I notice which is really no big deal but my users must REFRESH the page before the map will appear again no big deal as they know about it but it would be cool for it to appear after posting after all isn't posting a refresh in a way?

As always Magnus your work is incredible. I'll send yet ANOTHER donation and another vote from me bro.......

Could someone let me know the full URL to enable me to use this for UK addresses? Thanks

See a few posts above... since it currently uses the Yahoo Maps API, it doesn't work with UK street addresses.

Yes, I saw that, but it seems like the poster had got it working and I wanted the full URL he used to get it to work.

Why even bother with the Yahoo side of things? Doesn't google cope with addresses? I thought it did.

The reason for the Yahoo API reliance was timeline. Yahoo!'s Geocoding validator was available first. Now that Google has a comparable tool, magnus has said he'll try and use that instead, for consistency's sake.

And no, the poster didn't "get it working," he just confirmed that the address didn't validate in Yahoo maps directly either, which is why it Phoogle doesn't map it properly.

BBCode and centered in the middle of the thread... ??? :(

No I haven't got it working with UK street addresses - that will require magnus to make the changes he's made in his development version publicly available or him doing something very clever like switching the yahoo look-up depending on the country.