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

[Barry Canton]

There's a few of us in Cambridge, USA.  We're just hidden under Bill's marker:)

Barry



On Feb 13, 2008 1:36 PM, Julius Lucks <julius at younglucks.com> wrote:
> 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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Barry Canton
Endy Lab
Biological Engineering Division
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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