Mini Mods - [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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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* 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.

We appreciate the support!
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Other addons available @ www.DragonByte-Tech.com/forum

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 mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of Show Thread and product pages which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[CoZmicShReddeR]

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!

[Beezilbub]

Originally Posted by Trip3151

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

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?

[Morrus]

Originally Posted by Beezilbub

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.

[Beezilbub]

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

[voglermc]

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

[Beezilbub]

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

[glen290]

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

[voglermc]

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

[OcR Envy]

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

[bzcomputers]

Originally Posted by voglermc

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

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."