Major Additions - VBGooglemap Hotspot Edition

This modification contains a security vulnerability, you are hereby advised to uninstall until further notice.

- vBulletin.org Staff



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

This is the port of the VB 3.5.X version (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=114149)

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

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

FYI:
google announced its going to start charging $0.25 per 1000 quota units for use of its API.

doin't know if that will affect anyone with Google api plugins (like this or member edition)...but just letting yall know. be aware.

[Hunne]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

FYI:
google announced its going to start charging $0.25 per 1000 quota units for use of its API.

doin't know if that will affect anyone with Google api plugins (like this or member edition)...but just letting yall know. be aware.

where can I find more information about that?

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by Hunne

where can I find more information about that?

http://www.google.com/apis/adwords/quota.html

but I also received an email and announcement via my accounts.

[Hunne]

Looks like this is only for the Adwords API. Hopefully this helps to block MFA sites

[stonyarc]

I've updated the version now online to compensate for the bitfield conflict some users are experiencing.

[vivamexico55]

Does this work in 3.6.1 or is it untested yet

[stonyarc]

Originally Posted by vivamexico55

Does this work in 3.6.1 or is it untested yet

It's working on my devserver on 3.6.0 and 3.6.1

[Manny.Munich]

*installed* two times on two boards

but one forum isn't working, could not see it in acp...

[|oR|Greg]

For the hot-spots can you use the Get Directions option?

[r5e]

Stonyarc, well done on a great mod. It installed easily and seems to work perfectly. However, now that I'm using it, there are a few features which it could do with. I'm not sure if you are planning on adding any features to this mod, or where you would take feature suggestions, but I figured this would be as good a place as any.

1. Have the ability to customise fields used. For example, I would like to have a few more fields available than “marker title, marker text, special date, URLs and full text”. I would like to add 2 or 3 custom fields which are relevant to the purpose for which they are used for (user submitted biodiesel retailers – blend strength sold, consumer confidence rating, price per L, supplied by, etc). I can currently ask that people put these in the “full text” field, but then they are not prompted for specifics and the data can get hard to manage that way.
2. When editing a marker placed by another user, the name of the person editing the marker replaces the original username who set it. It would be good if the name of the original submitter stayed on it and if a forum moderator (who has permission to edit) changes anything, then their name would not replace the original submitter.
3. When displaying a username on a marker, it would be nice if it linked to the member profile.
4. The ability to change the default names that are currently hardcoded: Example, the name of the link that displays on the navbar is "google map HSE" and the name on the main page says "Googlemap Hotspot Edition - Welcome to the vbgooglemap Hotspot Edition.". I’ve changed some of mine manually through template edits, but it would be more elegant to simply allow a field for a variable in the Admin CP.

I'll probably have loads more suggestions, but I won't place any more unless there is a want for them. Stonyarc, if you do want to develop/improve this mod further, please say so and I'll maybe come back with a few more. If not, then I'll just hack a bit myself as I need. I'm grateful for the mod as it is 90% exactly what I needed already.