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 Darat

If you are using the transparent option so that your background shows through you may not notice much has changed since all I did was set the Med sea to transparent.

If you are not using the transparent option then the new coloured map should appear - all I did was replace the old map in ./forum/worldmap/maps with the new one, ran the cron job manually and then refreshed the page and it used the new map.

ok.. yea.. i had to turn transparency off!! Thanks

[ConqSoft]

If you want it to run every 5 minutes you would have to have several cron entries.

1st one: 5, 10, 15, 20
2nd one: 25,30,35,40
3rd one: 45,50,55,00

[creedmaniac]

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

If you want it to run every 5 minutes you would have to have several cron entries.

1st one: 5, 10, 15, 20
2nd one: 25,30,35,40
3rd one: 45,50,55,00

thanks much...i think that all my questions...so maybe i'll shut up now

[Trigunflame]

Thanks guys for helping with support while im working on other stuff

[Mastar]

It would be cool if when click on the '+' it would show the username and the ip.

Maybe in the next version!!??

[ConqSoft]

Originally Posted by Mastar

It would be cool if when click on the '+' it would show the username and the ip.

Maybe in the next version!!??

That's not really feasible for a site with a lot of members; They're all on top of each other (view my map). I think this hack is more just to show your coverage area.

If you want user detail, the Google Map hack (or www.frappr.com) would be a good choice.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Mastar

It would be cool if when click on the '+' it would show the username and the ip.

Maybe in the next version!!??

This hack was created for the purpose of showing a generalized global perspective of your member base.

That being said, its not practical to load potentially several thousands of user coordinates into a client side google system like that on each page load.

1. Extra Bandwidth
2. More Memory Usage

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by creedmaniac

thanks much...i think that all my questions...so maybe i'll shut up now

Ya I figured 15 minute interval would be a nice compromise for default values.

[ConqSoft]

Will it mess anything up if I cut the "dead space" off the bottom of the original map images?

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

Will it mess anything up if I cut the "dead space" off the bottom of the original map images?

It shouldnt, but I havnt tried it so I don't know