VBGooglemap Hotspot Edition

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VBGooglemap Hotspot Edition 1.0.4
I'm proud to announce that the Hotspot Edition is currently available to you all !!!

Function
The vbgooglemap Hotspot Edition is a design from StonyArc (http://www.stonyarc.com). It allows you to create and maintain a whole range of elements like landmarks, places to visit or even people. The application is fully manageable from the control panels. Each specific category can have a specific colour code. The configuration is done by the administrator. He or she can edit/approve/add catogories name it, it's there.
Clicking on a marker will open a small balloon with some essential elements for that spot and an image in the second tab. For each marker on the map there is also a full details page including support for the vbulletin full editor (wysiwyg) so additional information and images can be added.

Use the menus to navigate through all the functions.

Vbgooglemap Hotspot Edition is ideal for handling landmarks, travel, events or even giving your users their own page.


Don't forget to hit install !!!!!!!




Detailed installation instructions and screenshots in the included pdf file.

Version Information
1.0.0.

• Initial Version

1.0.1

• Included fix for single quote insert error

1.0.2

• Integrated on mouse over support for the information balloon with admincp support for activation
• Compact display of main map (welcome in header)

1.0.3

• Fixed date issue to display the correct entered date in both new insert and edit of existing
• Fixed the frontend delete issue

1.0.4
Current version

• Minor update after changes from Google. IE alignment issue.

Current Features





NOTE:

This has taken quite some work and still will take a lot more. Please give credit where credit is due. You cannot remove any notice without prior written permission.

Support for this version is only in this thread and only for people that have clicked install.

To remove the copyright marker, please get in touch with me on admin@stonyarc.com. The email address cannot be used for support questions for this version.

If you have specific requests (eg custom versions) you may use the address to get in touch with me to discuss.


Planned Features
- To be defined

Volume warning

- high volume of markers may result in longer loading times

Special

- Read the attached PDF for more information. The pdf is also included in the zip file.
- You'll need a googlemap key for your domain. Get your own key for your domain view http://www.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html for more information.
A googlemap key is only valid for a specific domain. You'll need a specific google account to create one.
All is explained on the googlemap link indicated above.
- Set the file permissions on the spotmarkers.xml file to 777
- usergroup permissions are available in the backend
- First time loading of the map may take a few seconds longer because of Google API hosting

Demonstration
http://www.stonyarc.com/forums/vbgooglemaphse.php

Credits

This has taken quite some work and still will take a lot more. Please give credit where credit is due. You cannot remove any notice without prior written permission. Instructions are included in the pdf file (vbgooglemaphse1.0.0.pdf)


FAQ

The FAQ is included in the pdf file.



Feel free to support this mod and make a donation to admin@stonyarc.com



(c) 2006 Stonyarc

[cmrplusradio]

StonyArc,
Firstly, thanks for the excellent mod. But i seem to be having diffuculty setting mine up... Could you take a look and see where iu have gone wrong, as the pictures arent displaying and i dont know where to add the code for the navbar and it doesnt seem to be working very well at all!

I am willing to make a donation for your support.

[cmrplusradio]

the address is http://www.cmrplusradio.com/communit...oglemaphse.php if you want to take a look first...

[mhc1576]

You should change your Forum URL in vBulletin settings to:
http://www.cmrplusradio.com/community/community

Instead of http://community.cmrplusradio.com/

For navbar goto Styles and templates an select the style your using.
Find Navigation/Breadcumb templates and expand it, open the navbar.
In navbar find:

		<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

After add:

		<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="vbgooglemaphse.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[vbgooglemaphse]</a></td>

[steven s]

The first map id never displays.
I currently have 4 elements but everything from the 2nd display.
http://www.318ti.org/forum/vbgooglemaphse.php

[stonyarc]

That's very strange as it is listed.

What if you edit it and put it in somewhere completely different

[steven s]

Originally Posted by stonyarc

That's very strange as it is listed.

What if you edit it and put it in somewhere completely different

When I go to edit it is where it should be. :tired:
Maybe I'll delete the tables and start all over?

[StuartDH]

Superb mod Stonyarc. Very easy to install, setup and use.

The only problem I had was having to make sure that the admins IDs were in the config.php, and not just the usergroups. Until I'd done that, the other admins couldn't see the HSE menu in the admin area, but it was very easy to sort out.

Is it possible to run the maps under a different header than the forum's. My site uses tabs in the header for navigation and to show where the user is within the site. I'd really like to able to have a tab for 'maps' that will light up when the user is viewing vbgooglemap pages. Is it possible to have a new template as header2 within the main style and show it when users are using the maps facility?

[johnstires]

How long would it take to load 4000 markers? I added a bunch via mysql and they show up on the table view, but not in the map view.

[testing2]

Originally Posted by johnstires

How long would it take to load 4000 markers? I added a bunch via mysql and they show up on the table view, but not in the map view.

I have added about 25 so far and it is decidedly slower than when there were 5 markers. It now takes more than 25 seconds to load. I'm assuming your 4000 markers will take more than 10-20 minutes to load.

I think this mod is really awesome - but I'm wondering if it is possible to divide up the map or something so that only a partial amount of the markers will be shown at a time. The way I would see it would be if I can have separate map for each state and I can show a map with only the markers placed in that state or something... Or if the user can select the types of markers to be shown at a time instead of seeing them all at one once.

[MovetoNYC]

[high]* MovetoNYC clicks install
[/high]

I love this! It should go great with my site. I have a site about New York City so I could put all the main places to go great idea

One quick quesiton though: Are we aloud to edit the templates? Becuase I'd like to fix one small thing?

http://www.movetonyc.com/forum/vbgooglemaphse.php

If you see with my Big Apple style where it says

Forums and then it goes down, with my style it looks bad. So is there a way to fix that? or take it out all together?

- MovetoNYC