When is there going to be a brand new googlemaps, preferrably HSE Edition? I base my forums on a Meeting Place Finder.

Another question: Is it really necessary to have this markers.xml?

Everybody can download this XML file. So an unregistered user can have all members with their coordinates. Makes this sense?

If we really need this file is it not possible to protect it against violation?

True.. I never thought about that.. but usually "most average" people won't know about this file.

You need to have it because it stores the locations.. unless you get creative with blocking the direct call of it, or re-write the whole mod to use DB.. your most likely stuck with it. It has to be accessable and writeable.

There is a way to avoid creating and using that file.

Put its contents into the map page itself, as a JavaScript array.

However, one will have to ensure that quotes and apostrophes are properly escaped.

It's possible to improve performance by caching the page and updating it whenever the positions-DB entries change. And a simple way of doing that is to calculate a MD5 or SHA1 hash value for the positions DB whenever it gets updated, and to update the page only when its hash code differs from the DB's one.

PHP has some built-in functions for that, md5() and sha1(), so it should be straightforward to implement.

Thanks for the fixes. I've come back to this to try to find a google maps members map solution as there doesn't seem to be one anywhere and this is closest I could find.

Im on vB 3.8.

I've updated with your files and I get the following problems (just in case there are additional fixes):

If I click the "Your Entry" link to add a marker it all seems to work, but when I load the Main Map I'm not shown on there. However I can see myself in the users list.

If I click on the "Your Entry" link after I've added myself the Googlemap doesn't load showing me where I had been placed.

No matter what I do it won't display the saved markers.

Any ideas?

This is exactly the problem i have since 3.7.5 (and still have on 3.8.0). Wishing someone has a solution, or this fantastic mod will be upgraded.

Is there a way to make it update when usergroups change?

CHMOD = 644 works. (Guess Not, weird things have been happening since the upgrade to 3.8.1)

Why doesn't some rewrite the whole thing and start over in a new thread? I preferred the HSE edition.

I'm thinking of uploading an archive of the vbGoogleMap plugin with my fixes.

Would that be OK with you people or would that be out of line?