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

[ReadOrDie]

Ok, so 215 people installed this hack. And yet no one can put the file somewhere, where I can download it?

[ConqSoft]

I guess tha also means that 215 people were able to figure out how to extract a gzip file.

[phill2003]

Originally Posted by ReadOrDie

Ok, so 215 people installed this hack. And yet no one can put the file somewhere, where I can download it?

Good grief, if 215 people can manage it its not going to be that hard eh!


Download the file and use winrar to extract it, then you will find a .dat file in the folder winrar creates, Upload this file to the requisite folder on your server then follow the rest of the instrucions.

It takes at most 10 mins to install this it is an awesome hack made very easy to install by the developer, you coming here with attitude does not make people want to go out of their way to help..

[DementedMindz]

lol hes still tryin to extract it lol well if in a week you didnt do it dont you think its time to move on?

[GoNz00]

Originally Posted by MorrisMcD

Not accurate at all??? Sounds like you have the permissions set wrong

i think its because most members live in the uk, and the crappy isp's route you halfway round the country and back so the locations were totally out for nearly all members..
I got fed up of the PM's telling me it was out and asking why they coudn't click for more details, no pleasing some people

[ConqSoft]

Originally Posted by GoNz00

i think its because most members live in the uk, and the crappy isp's route you halfway round the country and back so the locations were totally out for nearly all members..
I got fed up of the PM's telling me it was out and asking why they coudn't click for more details, no pleasing some people

Strange. I have a lot of members in the UK also, and they show up:

http://www.fireblades.org/index.php?page=membermap

[Darat]

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

Strange. I have a lot of members in the UK also, and they show up:

http://www.fireblades.org/index.php?page=membermap

We do as well and it doesn't seem a major problem - see: http://forums.randi.org/worldmap.php and after all isn't this just a bit of fun? Doesn't need to be incredible accurate to give some sense of the distribution of the members of your board?

(Plus it seems to match up very closely with the other non-public trackers we have on our forum.)

[MorrisMcD]

Originally Posted by GoNz00

i think its because most members live in the uk, and the crappy isp's route you halfway round the country and back so the locations were totally out for nearly all members..
I got fed up of the PM's telling me it was out and asking why they coudn't click for more details, no pleasing some people

that stinks.. I was just guessing maybe you had the same problem as me.. I had the permissions set wrong so whos online looked the same for a week.. lol

[ReadOrDie]

I had someone give me the file because none of you were friendly enough to do it. But I still get the same error.

[MorrisMcD]

Originally Posted by ReadOrDie

I had someone give me the file because none of you were friendly enough to do it. But I still get the same error.

*edit* Actually I prob shouldnt do that.. lol