nah, it's alive <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />. Check it out at my site: HERE <br /><br />Click on "usermap" in the top nav bar. That shows the usermap I have which I paid DaveL to create for me.

WHOA! That's awesome!

I'm also interested in a function to show users by location, a map is not required in my case.

I would like to voice my support of said feature. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I thought I would dredge up this old request. I was also in the list of folks who thought this would be a great addition to my site, but could never find one that worked. Well, I've found one that works...with some hacking around with it. It's called Globe*Trotter and you can find it here:<br /><br />http://www.xenolth.biz/<br /><br />Here is my (in-progress) implementation of it: <br /><br />http://www.CustomTacos.com/usermap<br /><br />Notice that I changed the map, since my site really caters only to people in the US. Obviously, you can use any map image you choose.<br /><br />I hacked it a little so that each person's name and the "person" icon on the map can be clicked to take you to their UBB.T profile. There's still some work left to be done on it, like making it so that if you're not logged in through UBB.T you can't place an icon on the map.<br /><br />Drawbacks? It looks like users can't change/delete their icon once it is placed on the map. I can remove their rows from the db where the data is kept, but it would be nice to have a way for them to be able to do it themselves.<br /><br />I'd love to see what you guys think of Globe*Trotter, especially those of you who have been wanting something like this. So far, I think it's pretty good.<br /><br />Jeff<br />CustomTacos.com

ok first off how you linking it to the map? you actually using lat and long of where they are? if you are I would use one of the extra fields in Threads for zipcode and then have a database for this that uses that field from the users table to link to a lat and long in the map database and then use that lat and long to display it on the map then whenever the user changes his zipcode it will change to there and if the zipcode isn't in the map database it won't display..

I think there on to something, looks cool, but what does it look like when you have 3,000 people from the same state?

You can change the icons for the marker points, so instead of using the little "people", you could use a small red dot maybe. That would take up less space on the map if you have lots of users in one spot. I'm also considering doing this, mostly because I have a lot of users in SoCal.

Hmmm, I wonder if you could click on a state and bring up a list of everyone in that state, that might work better for the larger states like Cali, you could still have the dots but then you could scroll down the list. <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif" alt="" />

I'd love to see this done as a hack! How awesome! Especially if it could automatically place the icon on the map if the person entered a zipcode in their profile.

I installed globetrotter on my site. It lets several people add their icons, and then somewhere along the way it won't display the info when they hover and I get the error "Line 201 Char 5 Display is Undefined Code 0" in my gobetrotter.php file<br /> I have reinstalled the SQL tables a few times, which fixes it until several members drop icons. Did anyone encounter this problem, or would you be willing to share the mods you did on the code?

Is DaveL's hack going to be released? <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I don't know, but I commissioned him to do it for my site. I'm fuzzy on the details, but if he did it for me as an independent contractor, then I would have the rights to release it wouldn't I? Otherwise, why wouldn't he have released it himself anyway? <br /><br />Someone ask him I guess. Is he still even around on here? I have no problem giving out what I have, if he doesn't mind.<br /><br />You can check it out at www.ultimatnurse.com by clicking on "user map" in the nav bar. (duh <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />)

I haven't seen him around for a while but it would be a neat mod to have. Meanwhile, I installed Globetrotter that Calpy mentioned above and it is a pretty sweet setup although I haven't incorporated it into the threads db but I may look into it.

I'd definitely appreciate this mod if you can release it shortbus!

If you paid for the work you should be able to do whatever you like including release it to the general public unless there was a previous agreement to not do so <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

*bump* <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

sorry guys, been really busy. <br /><br />I'm out of town for a week and will post it up sometime when I get back.

<img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/yay.gif" alt="" /> I just hope it's doable with 6.5.

[]shortbus said:<br />sorry guys, been really busy. <br /><br />I'm out of town for a week and will post it up sometime when I get back. [/]<br /><br /><img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/yay.gif" alt="" />