European Member Map

DirkS. · 5th November 2004, 13:42

Members and Friends,

I'm very proud to introduce the lastest innovation to our Forum: The automated european member map!

Arnd took the effort to adapt a vBulletin script to fulfill our needs and I'm very pleased with the result.

The member map allows you to enter your postal code (for Germany, Austria and Switzerland) in your profile and automatically, your nickname will appear on the map along with your location.

For members of the other european countries, Arnd created an european map and implemented the possibility to enter GPS coordinates!

All members are invited to complete their profile with postal code or coordionates in order for our community to obtain an excellent overview of the member's spread across europe. The link can be found in the navigation bar under "Useful Links/Nützliche Links - Member Map".

Additional notes:

The map isn't created dynamically, but every half hour. So if someone enters his postcode/coords he will not appear on the map directly. To manual update the map, you can open http://www.eurovan2.com/forum/membermap.php?mm_action=c. If you still see the old map you'll have to clear your browsers cache.
The second option to enter the latitude and longitude directly has to take place in degrees not in degrees/minutes/seconds. Members can use www.multimap.com to determine their position.
Sorry for our members from the USA, Malaysia and other extra-european countries. It is too hard in the first step to incorporate a world map with zoom function....

Thanks again to Arnd for the excellen job!

fragie · 5th November 2004, 13:55

great job

fragie

Eurovanfan · 5th November 2004, 14:48

@Arnd

High shall he live.

(For native english speakers: Ignore the sentence above.

)

Well done, Arnd.

phedra70 · 5th November 2004, 14:52

Echt cool

qzdcg8 · 5th November 2004, 15:10

Fantastic!

The Internet Explorer title line says "Membership für VB3" though... I'd expect it to read "Membership für EV2"

Axel Rauch · 5th November 2004, 15:44

Wunderbar, echt Klasse Arnd

Eine kleine Einschränkungen die ich als Landei habe :

- Ich komme aus dem schönen Nieder-Hilbersheim und nicht aus Appenheim, was die Karte behauptet. Wird wohl daran liegen das die PLZ die selbe ist.

Gruß Axel

DirkS. · 5th November 2004, 16:08

Zur Ehrerbietung an das Forum, ziehe bitte um!

Axel Rauch · 5th November 2004, 16:21

Ne Ne Ne Bestimmt nicht nach Appenheim !!!

Nieder-Hilbersheim ist viel viel schöner. Vieleicht sollten wir doch mal ein Forumstreffen auf dem Land mit ner schönen Weinprobe machen.

Axel

gerd · 5th November 2004, 17:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by qzdcg8

Fantastic!

The Internet Explorer title line says "Membership für VB3" though... I'd expect it to read "Membership für EV2"

Ok , a little change it's for Eurovan2 now ,but i still take a deep

and a lot of

for Arnd.

Keep up the good work.

Uwe_rossi · 5th November 2004, 19:48

@ Axel Rauch:drei gehöfte eine strasse. das ist kein ort.

Axel Rauch · 6th November 2004, 10:12

Hi Uwe

Naja 650 Einwohner, 15 Straßen ca. 200 Haushalte, das ist zwar keine Stadt, aber ein schönes Dorf in dem ich viel lieber Lebe als in einer Stadt mit 100000 oder mehr Einwohnern.
Aber ist schon OK Uwe ich weis ja wo es her kommt.

Gruß Axel

Alex · 6th November 2004, 22:54

Great idea, perfect work, Arnd!

Greetings, alex

Christoph B. · 6th November 2004, 23:16

Very good Job, Arnd!!!!!

Chris

Arnd · 7th November 2004, 07:38

Thank you all.

Some additional note. The script is using OpenGeoDb as postcode database. There are some known limits, e.g. Axels problem (sorry Axel). Also it may be that not every town is listed in that database (already had this with one Swiss town). So if you enter your postcode and don't appear on the map, you'll have to use the geo coords and delete your postcode entry.

Arnd

P.S.: If you're looking for a nice, free program to generate maps, take a look at MapCreator.

schpountzator · 7th November 2004, 12:39

You may have to enlarge your view of the Eurovan community and add some exotic countries, like Israel!

Well done. Nice to know.

I just add my zip code.

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Axel Rauch Warhorse Join Date: 25 Aug 2003 Location: Nieder-Hilbersheim Age: 42 Posts: 690 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Car: First C8 now Phedra Country of origin:	Hi Uwe Naja 650 Einwohner, 15 Straßen ca. 200 Haushalte, das ist zwar keine Stadt, aber ein schönes Dorf in dem ich viel lieber Lebe als in einer Stadt mit 100000 oder mehr Einwohnern. Aber ist schon OK Uwe ich weis ja wo es her kommt. Gruß Axel
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