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

[MorrisMcD]

Originally Posted by bitg

Isn't this the same thing as the Google World Map addon?

On the google one, the users add a marker for themselves that identifies with them.

On this one, a map is generated based off the IP addresses of all your user total and currently online. A dot is put on the map for each user's last ip, but it doesnt tell you who it is (that would get messy)

I really liked the google one.. But noone was using it.. I decided to keep both

[Holidazed]

IC. My mistake. I will add this to my site as well.

[MorrisMcD]

I got a couple PMs about making a CMPS page for this... Here are some simple instructions...

[Mosh]

Is there any way of making this work without the GD Library, unfortunately my php was not compiled with GD :disappointed:

[Holidazed]

I installed this and it works perfectly. A great addition to my sites. Thank you

[Vizionz]

anyway to generate a map based on color to match some forums styles
i didnt look at the file. but can you just adjust the image in photoshop that its generating ? the markers onto

[ConqSoft]

If you use PNG, the map is transparent (other than the countries), so your site background color should show through.

[ConqSoft]

Originally Posted by jdsinclair

Is there any way of making this work without the GD Library, unfortunately my php was not compiled with GD :disappointed:

You should get your host to compile it in. It's useful for many things... attachment thumbnails, registration image verification, etc.

[mat64]

Nice one

[SgtTechHead]

Very cool! Nice product, and definitly a breeze for the admin's to maintain...