Vbulletin World Map System

Vbulletin World Map Plotting System
Show Your Guest/Members From All Over The World !!!

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

[ConqSoft]

Here's some ideas for added features, based on this:
http://clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.p...clustrmaps.com

How about an option to vary the size of the "dot" based on how many people in that area?

It also lets you click on areas to get a "zoomed" map of that area.

[Keyser Soze]

wohoooo! what a nice hack...
installed it: http://forum.modopo.com/worldmap.php

Thank you so much!

[Pvtiste]

installed it : http://pvtistes.net/upload/worldmap.php

Good work !

[DementedMindz]

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

Here's some ideas for added features, based on this:
http://clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.p...clustrmaps.com

How about an option to vary the size of the "dot" based on how many people in that area?

It also lets you click on areas to get a "zoomed" map of that area.

thats a good idea i think.... i wish it would show who the member on the dot was maybe some sort of cache system could be used this way it aint using so much queries and resources have it update once a day or maybe twice a week for newer members it missed.... i know on a board with alot of members it may be a resource hog but if it only updated it once or twice a week and had that file cached it may save alot of resources too... maybe you and Trigunflame could get together and use his cached system and have it work with this to save it in cache..... just trying to give some ideas on improvement ... sorry if it sounds stupid

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by drex

From one of my users:



Sigh-- there always has to be one who wants more! LOL, and from a non-donating user to boot!

Tell him to get frappr, not this

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Quarterbore

Back to the server load issue mentioned a few pages back...

I think it would pay to redo the hack so that it only updates the MEMEBER map once a day (at an off time) and then have it do the calculations for the WHO IS ONLINE every 15-minutes... The server load has to come from plotting thousands of members (MEMBER MAP) as opposed to the dozens to hundreds (WHO'S ONLINE) so splitting the two tasks would save a lot of server load...

I am swamped with work but if nobody else beats me to it I will see about splitting the tasks so that seperate CRON jobs can make it run.

I doubt its causing that much server load bro; Ive ran the script on a few forums with 80k+ members and noticed no such increase.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

i was just wondering why is the title of the page like this???

<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - View All Thread Bans</title>

its on the worldmap.php page

Cause I copied a template from my other hack, just a typo need to fix it.

[DementedMindz]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

Cause I copied a template from my other hack, just a typo need to fix it.

was just letting you know ... any plans for any future addons to this?

[vprp]

Nevermind. Figured it out.

[DementedMindz]

did you run the task to create the images?