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

John Cumbers johncumbers at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 17:58:41 EST 2008


I now appear to have trumped all of you Red Sox with my Providence pin, go
Pawsox :)

On Feb 13, 2008 2:02 PM, Barry Canton <bcanton at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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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> >
> >
> >
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> Biological Engineering Division
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>
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Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry
Biology and Medicine
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