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

[ozzy47]

You are better off asking for improvements/feature requests on their site in the modifications forum.

[Scalemotorcars]

Too bad its not supported here. Oh well.... :down:

Does anyone know of a working members map for 4.2.2?
Thanks...

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Scalemotorcars

Host will not add GeoIP to the server because its shared. Now can I get this to work?

I recommend moving to a better host, as if the alternative lookup method fails, GeoIP is required in order for this mod to work.

Originally Posted by Scalemotorcars

Is this mod working at all? I registered at http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com and checked out the map on your site and you seems to have the same issue I do. Only 2 pins on the map.

Im sure you have allot more members then that. Any update would be great. Thanks...

For performance reasons, we've turned off pins for usergroups other than our root admins


Fillip

[Marv]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I recommend moving to a better host, [...]

Are you making fun or is this your serious advice? Don?t wanna get you wrong on that.

But, is there a logical reason why including the free MaxMind GeoIP-files and amaking your mod working with that files isn?t an option? Not only are they definitly more accurate, updated on a regular basis - this would give all users (even those on shared hosting) the possibility to install and use this mod.

[Gadget_Guy]

Just so I understand....

If I install mod_geoip on my server the results will be a bit more accurate?

Also... do I want the legacy mod_geoip or the new mod_geoip2

D.

[martin1]

Okay I installed this map hack at my forum, we have around 18000 users.

We do not have any geo ip php extension, but map is still showing users online, how it works!?

Because users who were displayed in the city yesterday, they dissapeared , and on the same place there were displayed some other users.

i choosen to display all registered users on map.

[Marv]

Answers are all in this thread. This mod has a primary and a secondary method to locate users. If the primary fails (because mod_geoip isn´t available), method 2 kicks in. But as far as it seems, both methods don´t work very accurate. That´s what I can tell by the posts of others in this thread. Experiences may vary as usual.

[DragonByte Tech]

Yeah unfortunately geolocation isn't an exact science. For instance, living in Glasgow (Scotland, UK) I frequently find myself being geolocated to London (England, UK). This is because the company that owns the IP address I'm connected to, has its registered access in London.

Some IP address blocks are registered to a more local office, but unfortunately it's not always possible to be 100% accurate.

Then there's some IP addresses that flat out don't have a registered address, either because the registered address records are not public, or for some other reason unknown to me.

The mod tries, it really does. That's all you can ask of the lad


Fillip

[BGObsession]

I've always thought a better approach for a Member Map is to allow folks to enter their home as a profile field entry and then have THAT produce a pin on a map. Some of us have a jury-rigged version of an old version 3 member map that did just that. I am always surprised that no one has managed to build a more recent version that functions reliably. But I'm not a coder, so certainly not implying it's easy.

[Gadget_Guy]

I just installed mod_geoip on my server.

I think I did it correctly, however, the member map is no different afterwards.

Do I need to wait for it to update the member map?

Is there any way for me to test to see if it is working?

D.