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

[vprp]

Thank you for this hack!

I was wondering if you've ever seen this one: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/usermap.php

Is there a way to get the balloons instead of the default user markings?

[DementedMindz]

thats pretty cool i like how it shows the spiders too wow on lookin at it more it has alot of features

[d8tabyte]

Yeah that one is sexy... need to figure out how they did it

[Trigunflame]

I might make some code changes to incorporate something like that for users online; however for members plotting that would be inpractical.. specially if you have several tens/hundred thousand members.

[ConqSoft]

Yep, the Google Maps get unwieldy with a lot of users.

[Kacela]

Very nice!

[high]* Kacela clicks Install!
[/high]
[high]* Kacela will be voting this for HOTM
[/high]

Only thing I dislike, is the auto-resizing on mouse-over; Is there any way to handle the sizing based on a percentage, rather than a fixed 1080 width? Other than that, my users and I love it!

[cn_de]

we have got this output by running CronJob:

Warning: getimagesize(): PNG file corrupted by ASCII conversion in /worldmap/class_wmp.php on line 140
Could not get map size.

Could you help?

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Kacela

Very nice!

[high]* Kacela clicks Install!
[/high]
[high]* Kacela will be voting this for HOTM
[/high]

Only thing I dislike, is the auto-resizing on mouse-over; Is there any way to handle the sizing based on a percentage, rather than a fixed 1080 width? Other than that, my users and I love it!

I opted not to because currently the GD imageresampling function is pretty bad, and without a good sharpening filter the map looks like crap when downsampled to a lower resolution due to the fine lines.

But yes it will hopefully be solved in the future.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by cn_de

we have got this output by running CronJob:



Could you help?

Yes, dont upload images in ASCII. Use binary mode with your FTP client.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

Yep, the Google Maps get unwieldy with a lot of users.

No kidding, but for small amounts should be ok I think.

Im working on a couple paid projects currently, so I should be able to get back around on this stuff pretty soon.