Web Wiz Forums Modifications - Intergrated Google Maps

Intergrated Google Maps

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Topic: Intergrated Google Maps

Posted By: garvey2003
Subject: Intergrated Google Maps
Date Posted: 05 October 2012 at 1:55pm

Its taken a little bit of work but I've finished.

I built a members google map for a phpbb forum awhile ago where you can pin your location and every member can see where you are. ideal for motor forums who like to meet up.

Anyway, the forum im with is on webwiz, Mainly coding in php I found asp a little more challenging but i've managed to intergrate a google map for members.

I would like to turn this into a mod for everyone to use, how do I go about doing this? I take it this has some protacol/procedure to follow.

here is a example.

Below are some screen shots of the members map integrated into the forum.

Firstly, If you are not a registered member, you will not have access to the map.

Under the Members control panel, I have added another tab with the map entry location

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g248/garvey2003/Controlpanel.png

Once you have selected the map, you can drag the pin to the location where you want then click the submit button on the left

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g248/garvey2003/Controlpanel.png

Once you have done that, your location has been saved and can be viewed in the main members map.

to access the main map, again you have to be registered to view it, select the members locations at the top right of the screen

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g248/garvey2003/mainmenu.png

Once in, You will see all the pins of all members who have selected his or her location.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g248/garvey2003/genral.png

If you click on a pin, you will see who it is and some nice info.

For example, Username, Avatar, when joined, number of posts and what bike he or she owns.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g248/garvey2003/genralwithpopup.png

The next stage will be searching for members, showing members in say 30 mile radius on your location, tooltip hover over pin for names etc.

Any info or suggestions great :)

thansk

Garv

Replies:

Posted By: garvey2003
Date Posted: 05 October 2012 at 2:06pm

for some strange reason its not displaying the images!

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 08 October 2012 at 11:47am

If you wish to allow others to download your mod to add to their forums if you make any changes to the database schema please prefix any new database tables or fields that you create with 'MOD'. This will prevent issues with future releases of Web Wiz Forums.

Google and Bing now both charge for their map service once your trail period is over, you may want to look at integrating with OpenStreetMap from http://www.openstreetmap.org/" rel="nofollow - www.openstreetmap.org , instead so that you do not need to pay for the mapping service.

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Posted By: korisnik
Date Posted: 17 October 2012 at 1:23pm

Bruce, where did you find that info about Google and Bing? https://developers.google.com/s/licensing - https://developers.google.com/maps/licensing .. there is nothing about trial period.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 17 October 2012 at 2:00pm

When they tried to charge us for using Maps on this website on our Domain Tools Pages, hence why we changed to OpenStreetMap:-

http://www.webwiz.net/domain-tools/" rel="nofollow - http://www.webwiz.net/domain-tools/

The IP Location Tool which is used to identify the location of IP address in Web Wiz Forums, is also part of the tools at the above link.

It depends on how many hits you send to Google and Bing and your usage for them as to whether they charge you for your usage.