Just a thought, a google map of member locations

[John S]

We run a completely free advert site for home shop machinists.

Advert - All Ads

If you place an advert for sales or wanted you have to give the first part of your post code, in my case NG10.
This is to save wasting peoples time contacting someone, only to find they are in the opposite end of the country.

No one sees the last part of the post code, only the person you give it to at the completion of a sale.

[Swarfing]

Can only see that being a problem if an actual address were used but would have thought it would be alright if just done by town much the same as the info on each post.

You would be mad to give your address out! Town is fine.

[martin54]

You would be mad to give your address out! Town is fine.

That's the point I was making the other site you mentioned must have had a lot more detail than what town the members were in if a number of them got broken into.

[Lee Roberts]

Hi lee, just a thought here, but do you think it would be a good idea to incorporate a map of all the members?

What I mean i mean is you have something like a google map view of members of the forums and the town they are from. This could help bring more people together and be quite interesting if you find out you have guys near you that could help etc.

I've seen it on joescnc and it's quite interesting to see that their is few hybrid builders from his forum here in the UK

just a though..

Hi guys,

Thanks for the suggestion, some one has already suggested this to me in the past, at the time i looked at something the guy over at digitalpoint developed, the link for what it is now is here: GEO Visitor Tools, i cant remember now why i didnt implement something or even the link above.

IF i was to code something up to do what your suggesting D-Man i would do it so it pulls in the voluntary profile field that we have at the momment called "Location:" and then plots it like you suggest to a google map. At the momment i would probably suggest that i wont have time to work on this so it wont happen, unless some one can find a system already coded up that i can just implement after some review.

D.C. how's that tin foil cap of yours doing, as nobody mentioned anything about IP addresses....

That's the point I was making the other site you mentioned must have had a lot more detail than what town the members were in if a number of them got broken into.

"You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth - Meat Loaf"

.Me