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

[Serial Killer]

Now that the new Google map mod is out, i will be switching to that one. This hack is nice, but the Google one looks so much better!

[ConqSoft]

They serve two different purposes...

[Serial Killer]

I know. This hack displays the users automatically (and for the most part works pretty well), but the Google map allows users to place their own marker on the map and display their info.

Which do you prefer?

[ConqSoft]

I prefer this one, because if I had ~9000 members on the Googlemap, the system would puke.

[Serial Killer]

hee hee hee! Good point. The Google map looks nice though...

Do you have any problems with your frappr map. Is it resource intensive? Looks pretty good.

[ConqSoft]

The frapper map isn't hosted by me, and isn't used very heavily anyway, so I dunno.

[steven s]

Originally Posted by Serial Killer

I know. This hack displays the users automatically (and for the most part works pretty well), but the Google map allows users to place their own marker on the map and display their info.

Which do you prefer?

Both.

[Gordon219]

Is it possible to have one for Invision?

[phreebsd]

dude this it totally a cool addon. I love it.
/me clicks install.

[delds]

Any way to have the option of providing a location fro a perticular user based on ip ? perhaps a small map beside the user name in each post with ip location (in text), making the small map clickable to open a bigger map with the persons location.