Location Mod but with google maps

[Ride]

I've seen some really cool stuff done with the google maps api.  It'd be really neat to be able to see where everyone lives on a scrollable map.  Maybe add zip code field in profile to get more exact locations (without showing the member's exact address).  Being able to switch to satellite and ariel photo view is extra cool.

http://www.google.com/apis/maps/

[dtm.exe]

This would be a hard, but ingenius integration .

-Dan The Man

[Ride]

This would be a hard, but ingenius integration .

-Dan The Man

Check out this awesome integration with Hot or Not...

http://hotmaps.frozenbear.com/

[Ride]

I've been looking into this more.  I don't think it'd be that hard actually.  One could use the existing location field and just require that a 5 digit zip be entered instead of city, state.  (I'm in the us, not sure how it'd work for other countries)

A script could query the zip codes from a database that has the lat/lon associated with that zip (like this? http://www.census.gov/tiger/tms/gazetteer/zcta5.txt )  to put a marker on the google map with the member's avatar and name or something like that.  Just throwing ideas out.  I'm no expert coder so hopefully the smarter ones can look into this.

[vdubbia]

Check out www.clustrmaps.com...

I use it on my blog: www.vertiblog.com

[Ride]

I'm trying to work on this with my limited knowledge.  Is anyone interested in working on this with me?

[TLM]

Just started a little job of working on it, so far so good.  Once  I get it working I will test it out on a couple sites first.  Only snag I am running into right now is IE...  Got indivdual users storing there location in a cordnate system, just got to make a page to bring it all together and get IE to load the profile pages...

*UPDATE* Got IE working I do belive */UPDATE*

[TLM]

Just to make sure before I go and package this and release this,
http://www.teamplayfirst.com/forums/index.php?action=membermap
Is that the idea you guys were comin up with?

[snork13]

Nice work TLM, looks sweet. A few of my members work for the company that provides the imaging for google...they were very impressed with your work.

snork

[TLM]

Nice work TLM, looks sweet. A few of my members work for the company that provides the imaging for google...they were very impressed with your work.

snork

Thats good to hear.  I got a couple more little things I want to put in before I let it loose to the public.  Working on it between times where my laptop is chewing at the cpu.

[vdubbia]

this is absolutely FANTASTIC!

Keep up the good work and this will be one of the best add-ons to the SMF platform.

Good work!

[Gobalopper]

Heh, I was actually thinking of doing this for the next release but its good to see other people doing it. Good work TLM.

[TLM]

Heh, I was actually thinking of doing this for the next release but its good to see other people doing it. Good work TLM.

Got any suggestions on dealing with a large number of pins?

[Gobalopper]

Do you mean for page loading time? Or not being able to see where the all point to?

[TLM]

More or less loading in general.. Could only put about 1k pins if I remember right from my tests earlier today.  As it stands thats the limit that the browsers can handle due to the file the browser deals with is just to large...

[TLM]

BTW, same thread more people watching it I think,
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=46141