I hacked this up about 3 weeks ago and was going to let you guys play with it, but then we updated to the new version of vBulletin, and that messed up my map (more on this later). Since then we have a Massassi map using Google Earth emerging, my map uses the Google Map API.
Anyway, here's how it works. Go to the map website:
http://216.170.11.226/map/
From there you can add yourself either by typing in your city, state, and country (hopefully will work international, and I realize the map is centered on the US, but you can move it around, I'll change it later). Also, you can optionally input a street address if you want to make the geocoding more accurate (only your city and state/country will be retained). You'll get a map showing where you'll be placed, make adjustments if you want, then when you finish it will give you a block of text, such as:
Copy the whole thing (including the MAPDSTART/MAPDEND) and private message it to the user "mapd" (map daemon). Within the hour (actually at a quarter after the hour) a script will run which will check all the private messages for mapd and then add the new users to the map, which can then be viewed at the above site. This was broken when the upgrade occurred, a lot of the form element names got changed.
Let me know what you think, I know its ugly and not standards compliant, I wanted to get your guys' input before I spent any time beautifying it. However it should be fairly solid codewise and only break if you try really hard.
-Aaron
Anyway, here's how it works. Go to the map website:
http://216.170.11.226/map/
From there you can add yourself either by typing in your city, state, and country (hopefully will work international, and I realize the map is centered on the US, but you can move it around, I'll change it later). Also, you can optionally input a street address if you want to make the geocoding more accurate (only your city and state/country will be retained). You'll get a map showing where you'll be placed, make adjustments if you want, then when you finish it will give you a block of text, such as:
Code:
MAPDSTART 40.754401 -96.616720 Lincoln NE 2c904501d143e2345f4d1c6015f2c86b01205d66 MAPDEND
Copy the whole thing (including the MAPDSTART/MAPDEND) and private message it to the user "mapd" (map daemon). Within the hour (actually at a quarter after the hour) a script will run which will check all the private messages for mapd and then add the new users to the map, which can then be viewed at the above site. This was broken when the upgrade occurred, a lot of the form element names got changed.
Let me know what you think, I know its ugly and not standards compliant, I wanted to get your guys' input before I spent any time beautifying it. However it should be fairly solid codewise and only break if you try really hard.
-Aaron
