Map of MT users
 

LINKS FOR THE MAP

View the map.

ADD ME!
There will be a 10-15 min wait for you to be added to the map until I rewrite the data storage script.

If any data needs to be changed or removed PM me. I will get around to requests as soon as possible.

I was just thinking it might be a good idea for any active members to put up their locations on a map. It might help when someone is in a pinch and needs a fellow members help. Might even help with members that don't know about each other. I have seen some extensions to vbulletin boards that will automatically take the user locations of everyone and map them out.

Just an idea :hustler:

Could do that with google maps easily. Would just need a list of everyone's locations. Just get Rick to give you an output of the location field from the forum database. (probably not going to happen)

How about an optional listing? I might could make a full google maps page and a mobile site for phones. I know I travel a lot and need help every now and then. It might be a good resource for those who travel and end up needing a little help.

i would be down to help peoples

Well if anyone else sees this as being helpful, I wouldn't mind keeping up with a database of addresses and contact numbers on a site that isn't indexed my Google and such for the people who would like to remain relatively private. I need a little project to work on while I'm not doing other things. I've been looking for a reason to play with some of Google's APIs anyway.... :drool:

That would be great...then I can have even more people call me to ask how to tune MS and what swap parts work, when I'm playin hos, doin my caviar and cris thang. Seriously...no.

I have a mental map of all of you motherfuckers. The closer to home it is the more detailed it is, too.

anyone in Illinois, i dont realy need help but maybe some advice from some local peeps

Anybody in Spain????

...I'm from around your parts, when I'm not in NY.. or deployed for that matter.

I like the idea for helping to invite people who are on the forum only occasionally to events like dyno days and racing events. Some of the guys local to me seem decent but only post on the forum once a month or less. That makes it difficult for me to even remember their screen names until I see them again. Not all of us hang together regularly like some of the Texas, NorCal, and NoVa guys do, but it might help. Nearest city location is fine. We don't want too much detail, especially after a certain parts selling member "allegedly" killed a girl and went to jail.

I'd also like filling out the location field to be mandatory when signing up, but that's just a wish.

One other thing I've wished for in the past is a master listing of screen names. All that I see is who is currently logged on and who has logged on that day. That makes it harder to PM somebody who hasn't been on that day. I saw two screen names I thought I recognized in a Central Florida Road Course forum, but couldn't easily double check that or PM them through this forum. I searched but I think it was a variational difference in the name like a number added or something. Locations and a master names listing could have helped.

On my local 5 forum we have a google maps file that gets updated as people add locations to the thread. Just co-ordinates of the house from Google maps and the colour of their 5.
First run is a bitch but updating is quick copy and paste.

Ive thought about this. Maybe start a topic and people can tell if they want to be listed or not. If they do they can provide how specific they want their address to be.

Yea I don't see a problem with this.. if people want to be added they can be added, if they are afraid someone is gonna rape them in their sleep and steal their car they don't have to add themselves.

I'd be down to see who is in my area so I don't have to search forever to try and find someone.

/edit.. for non raping purposes of course.

Well... for people that are afraid of frt's wrath they can just put a general location (town,city, county, etc.).

I'll give my address, I ain't scurd. Bitches

I'll post mine up. I'm not worried that someone is going to drive 1000 miles to the middle of nowhere to my place.

Well I am turning over to the all knowing Google and putting together a spreadsheet in there to be mapped to a Google Maps page. Shouldn't take to long.

Could be cool, although useless for me. JayL, Wayne Curr, and Sbcooker around Seattle, cueball1 and I in the Portland area. Everyone else too far to help. Done.

Not everyone knows who all is around. I for one know there is someone in Charlotte south of me but can't remember their name....

For everyone else, check out these.

Form to be added to the map:
ADD ME!!

THE MAP!!!

The page is currently on one of my spare sites. Data is stored on Google Docs and can be viewed at anytime here.

PS send me a PM if anything breaks...and stays broken. It's a little sketchy at times, but I will keep an eye on it for a while till it gets its training wheels taken off.

Added myself. I have two homes, so I put myself down twice.

It doesn't seem to like returns. Ill take a look into it though.

Hmmmm, ah well people can figure it out.

To fix any future problems with returns not showing up I went ahead and removed the multi-line input on the add me form.

I'm on, I think. I went back to the map after registering and I wasn't there yet. Maybe my browser was angry that I went back. I'll try again later.

yea you are on there.

The map takes about 2 mins to update. I added a note for people to put down more than a zip code for location. It seemed to loose them easily. City/state + zip code makes sure it does get dead on though.

Direct Google Maps Link:
http://spreadsheets2kml.appspot.com/?id=0AgK9igfCi5aidGVlWlhsTlFwN190Zkw5VFRqaXd3M2c.A 2.D99&cacheBuster=6693 - Google Maps

Info added as well.

Chris

Added my info

This will link to the map generated when you viewed it.

I may make a script to generate the map every 10mins or so to stop with the slow generation times with more users added.

OK, this slow map generation bs is pissing me off. For anyone who knows how to script and/or cares heres my plan. Google Docs will record and store the information in a spreadsheet(I hate data verification). Every 5-10 mins the script will access the spreadsheet and retrieve any newly added information and geocode the address/location given. It will then take make or open the existing KML file (Google maps XML file that contains "placemarks" and coordinates of said placemarks) and record the new data in the file.

Seems simple enough. Now off to read Googles API documentation... :hustler:

I added myself.

New map is finished. Registration is the same. You will not appear on the map right away. I have it recreating the map every 10 mins to keep user load times down. Plus it's bigger now! :fawk:

MiataTurbo.net Users


time for sleep...

Without some sort of control or selectivity, every swinging dick who registers will put their name on the map... and pretty soon, we'll have hundreds of NOOBs with ZERO posts all over the place and 1/2 of them don't own Miatas.If there's no "moderator" for the map, I think it's a terrible idea and will eventually end up being worse than useless for locating people.If it was a VBulletin product, and could be controlled... like say, on achieving 100posts, you automatically get sent a PM with the link to add your name to the map, and once a year you automatically get sent an update reminder that if you don't respond to it, you're removed from the map... but just a free-for-all will end up badly.

I would actually love to do this, but it would take Rick or whoever else trusting me with the website and db for me to incorporate it into the forums. Then the ideas would be endless.

• Map viewable after 10 posts
• Map registration after 50-100 posts
• Annual renewal
• More user data integration
• Etc.

I started this because I know how to script and I wanted to make something that could help others here. And once again I would love for this to happen it would just take time

That would be pretty sweet. I just like visual stuff.

That's weird, when I google hustler's address my computer locks up and says " ACCESS DENIED-THIS TERMINAL IS NOW BEING MONITORED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT" and a little black helicopter appears above my building.

It's a long shot, but who knows. I just noticed the topic is not sticky so I guess someone likes it. The script has a little bit more of a delay than I expected but It still seems to be going along with no problems. Next I will be writing a sql db for it instead of using Google Docs to store the data. Yay for fun data validation. Once I do this I will be able to have the KML files generated on page load without any wait, so my 10-12 min delay for users to get added will be gone.

Why is it not displaying me?

The first may not have been displayed because you only included a zip code in your location. Now you are on the map twice, so I am removing the first entry with less information.

cool

I'm in Portland as well.

I haz been added.

I'm in

map no workey for me - looks like it's not updating

Snot refreshing.

I thought I did this already. I's done it now.

Sorry for anyone who added themselves to the map and were not showing up. Apparently my host decided to clear my crontab sometime last month.:vash:
Everything should be fully updated now.



Well it seems its a bad idea to apply a quick fix to a script I didn't really comment anything in so I don't even remember how it works to well. Ill be fixing it later today for everyone who has added themselves in the past 48 hours.

I was wondering what was going on. Thanks for the update!

Not working for me.

added

addeded 2!!

Texas Crew: That's all you can manage ******s?

Added

XML Validation
 

Can anyone fix XML. I can't get it to validate with Google... even though it appears to be valid. Here's the link to the KML file if anyone wants to take a look.
Users.kml

So if you have your location put in we dont need to tell you??