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 Trigunflame

Update:

Added Support for A single Map Page, that will shows all your members as well as guest/members currently online.

Please do the following:

Uninstall product, reinstall product. And ovewrite all files already uploaded. Make sure to look at some of the changes in the install instructions as well to learn how to modify the navbar template.

What exactly changed? Is the single map page pretty much what a couple of us have set up? Is it dependant on cmps?

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by MorrisMcD

What exactly changed? Is the single map page pretty much what a couple of us have set up? Is it dependant on cmps?

No, it uses its own template. Look at screenshots.

[SaN-DeeP]

another awesome addition, how is this addon different from
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=99920

thanks.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

another awesome addition, how is this addon different from
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=99920

thanks.

If you read the hack description, you would know

[Floris]

Good stuff, thanks for this I have a busy site where we have forums called usa, europe, etc .. so this will come in handy!

[Trigunflame]

Thanks floris

[ConqSoft]

Suggestion: Can you have it generate a Thumbnail of each map also (we define width in AdminCP)?

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

Suggestion: Can you have it generate a Thumbnail of each map also (we define width in AdminCP)?

That was my original idea, if you noticed in my class_wmp.php file where i had a @todo; the problem is in downsampling an image with crisp lines such as that map it will cause a very nasty blur.

The only way to correct this is with an unsharp filter, which I will have to find a suitable one or make one..

Hence the reason for the javascript resizer until such time.

[Darat]

Originally Posted by Tracer Gun Kata

Its a great little hack.. wondering if a coloured map is possible? White is a little bland.. or are you limited?

I've colourised the map if you want to use it you can just replace your World100.png with this one - the filesize is somewhat larger!

Also in the original installation pack the PNG with transparency has the Mediterranean and a few other areas as solid, I've attached a corrected World100a.png.

[Trigunflame]

Updated , will add them to zip file later.