[OWW-SC] More updates... GMAP Who's Online now working.

[Vincent Rouilly]

That's fantastic ! It is great to get a visual feel for the community  
behind OWW !

It was very easy to follow the instructions. Shall we put a link from  
the front page to the instructions ?
Can we consider putting the map on the OWW front page ?

cheers,

Vincent.


On 13 Feb 2008, at 14:40, Bill F wrote:

> I just finished an update to the "whosonline".
>
> 1. There's is a new preference page called "location". There are  
> several items that can be entered. The two that you should  
> immediately pay attention to are the lest obvious but the most  
> useful: latitude and longitude.
>
> From MIT, this can be set to
> Latitude: 42.359
> Longitude -71.093553.
>
> I'm adding a geocode lookup but for now this works.
>
> To get your lat and longitude, just bring up Google Maps, find your  
> site, center the site by clicking on it, then enter the following  
> line into your browser and Google will tell you exactly where you are:
>
> javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));
>
> Put the returned numbers into OWW. I'll make it automatic when I  
> have time.
>
> Then just embed the following tag anywhere and you will see a  
> Google Map of all logged in users who have valid latitude and  
> longitude entered.
>
> {{GmapOnline}}
>
> This is a first cut. We can make it a lot more interesting. But for  
> now it will show the info on anyone currentyle loggoed in.
>
> Last weekend, I went through the UMS login info. From this I've  
> generated a table of location info that I'm going to use to seed  
> the OWW userbase. This info will not be generally accessible: it  
> will live in the OWW database but will not be displayed to other  
> users. The map markers  will be generated using this info but.
>
> When you click on the market, a link to the user's OWW personal  
> page will be show.
>
> You can try it with my entry, currently the only active one on the  
> map.
>
> I want company folks... get those paramaeters entered!
>
> Bill Flanagan
>
>
>
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