Vbulletin World Map System
 

Summary:

The core of this system I developed approximately 3 years ago but was unable to practically distribute it on vborg due to the fact the GEOIP City Database was a very expensive software product; and it is needed to map IP Addresses to Global Lat/Lon Coordinates.

With the recent availability of a "Lite" version of the City Database I have decided to build from the ground up a new hack that utilizes it to display 2 map structures.

1. Plots Your Current Members/Guest Online available on the Whos Online Page.
2. Plots Your Registered Members last known Coordinates on the Member List Page.
3. Coordinates are calculated from IP Addresses stored in your Forums Database.

Features:

• Automatic & Accurate plotting of your Guest & Members on the WorldMap.
• WorldMap Page to view Both Maps, added to your navbar.
• Enable WOL, Member Plotting Independently
• Control Panel Options
• Specify Plotting Image Type, Size, Color
• Specify Opaque, Alpha Transparency
• Support for Payed Full Version of City Database
• Updates on Scheduled Task Interval
• Map is shown small and expands on Mouseover, then contracts back.

Instructions:

1. Download Zip File
2. Read INSTALL.TXT
3. Run the crontask manually the first time, so it will generate your images.
4. Click Install if you like it :)

Updates:
3/14/2006 - Forgot to uncomment keep-alive code.
3/12/2006 12:54pm -
1. Added a new Realistic World map
2. Configuration Editor partially remade, allows easier selection of Maps.
3/8/2006 11:35pm - Added a worldmap.php Page, for viewing both maps.
3/8/2006 9:52am - Fixed the jpeg output problem.

Note:

The GEOIP Binary Database can be located here:

http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoi...iteCity.dat.gz

Cool, will check it out.

Thanks, hope someone finds some use for it...

I got just the thing for this, thanks!

[high]* Brad installs. :)[/high]

Installed...

However I am missing the image.. seems for me to be pointing to an image which does not exist in the worldmap folder..

http://www.onlinewarfare.net/forum/online.php?

Its looking for the image here:

http://www.onlinewarfare.net/forum/w...rldmap_wol.png

**EDIT.. I missed out a step.. all working now.

Run the crontask manually for the first time.

Posted at same time.. ran the CRON job and this was output -

Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /worldmap/geoip/geoip.inc on line 398

Fatal error: error traversing database - perhaps it is corrupt? in /worldmap/geoip/geoip.inc on line 418

**EDIT.. I missed out a step.. all working now.

Go here and download the file at http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity

and make sure you place it in the worldmap/geoip/ directory.

ie. yourforum/worldmap/geoip/GeoLiteCity.dat

If you havnt done that, I cant help you.

Sure I will do that now.. I could not find this on the initial instructions? Or am I just thick lol.

**EDIT.. I missed out a step.. all working now.

Im pretty sure its there in the install.txt