Very nice hack but totally useless for Europeans (excluded UK ...) due to the geodata. But i will check it later again, maybe they bring out an update for Europe in a time.

Switch the map type to Hybrid. Most of my European and RoW users are using the satellite images to find themselves.

Sorry to somewhat hijack this, but I figure those who use this hack may know of one that I am looking for. Something like the Live Traffic Map from web-stats.com that tracks the last x visitors by geolocating their IP. I searched the board and found some old stuff that used to work for vB3.x and only for Germany (I think).

Is there anything like the web-stat one out there for 3.5.x?

Thanks in advance.

try this www.digitalpoint.com/tools/geovisitors/

Installed... modified slightly for the bubbles to appear as I choose, and instead of yellow being for "Moderators", now it's for "Administrators/Moderators".

Thanks! :)

Please explain what this means to do in extremely simple terms. The map loads nicely, but I have no markers and need to learn how to proceed.

I'm very new to this. Not sure how to conduct a CHMOD. Again explaining in very simple terms is the the way I learn.

Thanks for your hard work on this mod!! :rolleyes:

There are various ways to set the CHMOD. CHMOD are permissions.
You can do this by a line command if you have a shell account.
FTP programs will allow you get info about a file and let you set the permissions. If your host offers cPanel there is a section named file manager. You can use that to also make changes.

Hi,

I've just had an idea. Would it be easy to modify - in fact creating a second Google map hack - to give every user an own map?

What I'm talking about is that users can access their own map via CP where they can put as many pins as they want to, to show others where they've been travelling (red pins) and still want to go (yellow pins) and they live (blue pins). The accompanying marker text should be used to give informations about the date travelling to the set place/pin.

The user's map should be accessible for other registered users via user's profile and click-on-name-flyout.


Andreas

Thank you for your time.

Very understandable. I was able to set my permissions for markers.xml to 777. Still no markers. I'll try clearing my cache.

Actually after I set permissions to 777, it changes to 755 each time I connect to FTP. Originally it was 744. Now it seems "stuck" on 755. This may be the problem.