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

[Julius Lucks]

This is really awesome Bill!

I put the map on

http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/Sandbox1

for all to see.

At least there are 4 of us now!

Julius

On Feb 13, 2008 6:40 AM, Bill F <bill.altmail at gmail.com> 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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