[DBTech] Member Map v1 (vB4)
 

What is Member Map?

Welcome in the new year by showing your community that it's a small world after all!

Show your users' locations can be shown on an interactive google map after being geolocated from their ip addresses.
Also supports the ability to show all users or only those that are currently logged in.
Locations are calculated in batches to ensure smooth performance, or updated by each person using html5 browser location.
Markers can have custom colors per usergroup and features a popup with a mini profile including avatar.

Your forum friends were closer than you thought!

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* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

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General Settings

• Choose whether to show all users or only those logged in, and the default map type
• Choose the number of users to process per scheduled task run
• Usergroup setting to change pin color and set if they can access or should be excluded
• Option to hide the version number in the footer.

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This looks great! I have installed it, but I'm getting a no permission error when I try to view the map; as far as I can see the usergroup permissions (for Admins) are all set to yes.

how to create/ update the location?

Hello, I'm having a problem viewing the map. I have all my users, including admin set to be able to view the map but I keep getting the "you don't have permission" page and cannnot view the map under registered user accounts as well as admin. I'm running the latest version of VB4. Are there perhaps some settings I'm missing?

Excluded From DisplayOnly primary usergroup considered: is set to no you will need to make sure it's set to YES

Problem I have it shows the map 3 times

In stead of having 1 large map of the world I have 3 small versions

Okay it works so far, so good :D

I see some user on the map but not all of which are registered in the settings even though I have "all" set.
the information of a user is difficult to read because the background is white and the writing!, how can I change this?

Hmm. Thanks; that certainly worked. However it does seem a bit counter-intuitive that I can only see the map if I'm excluded from it.

It's is pretty cool. I'm hoping a more fully-featured pay version will be appearing, because the binary option of showing all 130,000 members (whole thing crashes and it's only added as far as 2002 so far...) or users currently online is a little limited. I'm imagining that could be gotten around by, say, having options to show only those within a certain distance or something. It may be that that's beyond the scope of the mod writer's intentions, though - I can see it making for a fantastic member meetup tool.

I don't want to sound like I'm whining, though. It's a very nice little mod, and it's free. Thanks to the developer!

It dosnt seem to be showing all users for me aswell....

Thanks, that works. Once I set that for admin the permissions problem was fixed for everyone else.

I haven't installed it yet but this is what I been wanting for a vary long time! Something automated that grabs your ip nice!

As I said earlier this did work but as a result it won't place anyone in the admin group. So I have a few questions just in case there is a work-around for that.

Is there a way to get admins in or is there a way to add pins manually?

Also I've got members from Florida who are showing up in California on the map. Anything I can do about that?

I have someone from NY showing up in Iraq!

With something like this, it's pretty much limited to what the IP address tells it. IP addresses don't always match the user, especially corporate ones; though they usually do.

I was afraid that might be the case. As always, thanks for the quick replies.

Would like to see it use a profile field option rather than an ip address. I have a profile field set as zip code

That would be something I'd like to see as well.

yay says im in Germany when im actually in Liverpool UK, be great if you could manually pin your location, installed anyway..

There is another "member map" add-on besides this one that allows manual pinning. I'm running that one until this one gets more features as asked by others here

Interested in how you are doing GeoIP... no maxmind?

This is a good suggestion and a way to work around the IP addresses that are displaying incorrectly.

Admin options
1) Use a profile field as primary source: yes/no
2) What profile field to use?

Then default back to IP address if field is null.

Place a note at the bottom of the map that says something like "If your location is displaying incorrectly please update your profile with your correct location."

New update!

Fixes the map loading for guests, and adds the usergroup ability to allow users to optout or manually set their pin's location by dragging it around, updated with ajax.

As long as can access it set to yes, should work. Being excluded only affects the appearance of your pins. I tested this on 4.2 and it works as described; does it not for you?

Zoom in a little.

You might be able to affect some of the maps styling with CSS

Your members' locations need to be resolved with your scheduled task, which will depend on how many members you have and how many users you have it set to process. It runs every 10 minutes by default.

It tries to use http://php.net/manual/en/book.geoip.php if it is installed on your server (which is powered by maxmind)
Otherwise this nice webservice I use hostip.info but that might be less accurate.

If other people have various ideas on determining location automatically (or have other IP resolving services) I will see what I can integrate.

No.

Major problems. When it's on we loose our privet messaging system, and our visitor messages in the profile pages.

When it is working.
Only about 160 of some of the 600+ members are showing up. All the permissions are set to show up on all user groups. The config is set to show ALL members not just active ones. So how do we get them all to show up?
Also is there some way for admins to edit the member locations?

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Have either of your installed other addons at the same time as member map? I havent been able to reproduce these errors - and none of the member map code runs during those other pages regardless.

Your members' locations need to load via the scheduled task which runs every 10 mins and processes the amount of users you specify in your settings. Furthermore, not all of your members may have posted which would record their IP address in the system, or their IP address may not have been able to be resolved.

Admins can edit users specifically, but you can enable the ability for members to edit themselves, but they would have to be present and visit the map to do this. Some users may also have opted themselves out.

Your DBTech vBQuiz (Pro Version).

No, that doesn't address the problem I had. Users are showing fine; it's that nobody can view the map unless the admin account is set to be excluded from it.

I have other addons but this was the only install we did. I turned off all other addons but that did not make any difference. It's off currently but as soon as it's turned on the pm system and visitor message goes away. You can access the in box and out box. But the link to send the message under the user name goes away. Not sure why yet.

I do not see any new DB tech tables in the DB. I do have your shout box installed but that is the only tables i see.

Oh one thing I did not notice that you say it's for V4.2.X I'm running V4.1.11. Other then them 2 little things it seems to work and looks great. My problem is we can't update to V4.2 with out a "BUNCH" of work to get our style back up to the standard our members have grown accustom to. Is there some way we can entice you to check compatibility? Or look directly at our site? Http://www.mightyram50.net
Thanks.

The pictures show the diferance. First one map is on. Next it's off.

v1.1 Hotfix #1
Fix: Visitor Messages editor did not load for some users after installing Member Map

Fillip

Installed and upgraded. It looks to be working. Will report back later. Thank You.

Here is what I have now. It is working but it's missing members. Some guys show up then there gone. It's kind of like some of the guys will only show up when on-line, while some are there all the time. Those members can't find them self. I will set the map so visitors can see the map, then you can look at it. Maybe there is a limit on how many can show.
http://www.mightyram50.net

Hi..

Not Really work again..

Add/Edit Location ??? not found to insert this...

One thing i noticed, and it seems to be an issue with vB, is that the CP seems to only take the IP address that the user originally registered with.
If you have imported users from elsewhere (like mine is) then there was no initial IP recorded as it wasn't carried accross, and therefore the IP field is blank in vB - meaning that they just don't appear on the map as they have no IP address :(

The header button seems to be buggy. I cant get the text link to go away.

Can you add search to this?

is someone having working with 4.2.3 ?

Best
Eric

and one more question, how long does it take for 12.000 User to show the map?
Best
Eric

I fixed the issue, removed the line after else in the style.

Other requests...

Search
Only showing recent, users with posts, or people who have logged in within the last month or year.

Installed with thanks for testing ... :)

Have noticed one problem right away ...

Color field doesn't recognize "black" (000000) for icons, or we're doing something else wrong as they just show up "red" when that hexadecimal value is used.

Suggestion... add a field that allows just showing "active members" after a certain date using "last activity" field ...

Going to have a look at "paid" version to see what additional features are offered ...

Regards,
Doug

Knock Knock... anyone there? :D

Still testing...

Another suggestion ... a "legend" that shows members what the color codes set my usergroup mean would be nice.

Regards,
Doug

Tagged.!!

bump.

Here is what I have now. It is working but it's missing members. Some guys show up then there gone. It's kind of like some of the guys will only show up when on-line, while some are there all the time. Those members can't find them self. I will set the map so visitors can see the map, then you can look at it. Maybe there is a limit on how many can show.
http://www.mightyram50.net