Wow you big old cynic you!

 

How about we also put this one on the front page with the gallery
that way nobody forgets about it and everybody can see the growth in Forumite numbers as they go up.

 

Depending upon how clever you can get you could link the random picture with their pin in the Map.

 

e.g Fozza and he lives ...here!

 

Sort of thing.

Not quite sure i like that idea. I wouldn't be entirely comfortable with a random being able to waltz in and see where my house is.

Hummmm Depends on how specific you make it really

 

Street level?
House Number?

 

City Only is what I was thinking, or at the most specific us Londoners
would put which burb we are in.

 

That would do

That would be cool if it was part of the start page, but I bet it's be impossible to do or a right bastard at most. Does no on else have the skills rather than keep expecting matt to do stuff?

Bump!!!

Now I know you Know about doing Maps :D

Aye, city only would be fine.

I can draw a map but I know fuckall about PHP and google maps and all that stuff. And more importantly, have bugger all time anyway!

With 1371 members it could get pretty messy.

 

Though, in reality, you'd probably only get a few dozen doing it.

Bullshit we have that many members!

 

We have less than 100 who regularly post.

 

How many of the 1371 are just Trig !? :D

At least 50% of that number will be people who came in to ask a BeeHive question and that's it. A fair few will be joke accounts made when people are bored and wanted the "newest member is..." bit to say something funny. I know i've been guilty of that sort of malarky myself a couple of times.

I reckon up to 1000 of that 1371 accounts could be safely deleted and nobody would notice.

Might free up a bit of space, an' all.

Ok so Milko has found this

Is this what we need?

Yes. And someone with some free time (not me).

I'm in London on Tuesday, want a coffee?

I wonder if it's possible to use this somehow ?

since it already has the whole world, can easily add 'push-pins' anywhere, and is often better resolution than Google

Definitely - whereabouts are you hanging around? I'm working literally opposite Blackfriars, so it'd have to be either lunchtime or after work.

I might be up for doing this, if Matt gives it the nod for the start page or something. Remind me.

Wicked!

 

Matt I believe is happy to allow it on the start page.
Is it possible to link the gallery pictures to
that persons position on the map?

 

That would be reallly cool.

Aye. Well, google maps is all new and exciting to me, because I was never really able to use it before. I'll have a look. Might be possible to link to pics/websites/I dunno really. I'll have a good look at the API when I'm neither still fucking around with stuff or working.

 

Be nice if thumbnails of forum images loaded somewhere. maybe we'd have to tie it in with ... what's google's flickr thing called? Anyway, yeah, I'll have a look and get back to ye.

the maps at http://maps.live.com/ are much better resolution than Google

(oh, and the new ones on www.192.com are better again - by far)

Same maps on 192.com and local.live.com. Both are by getmapping.com.

 

192.com allows you to zoom in closer but doesn't appear to actually include higher resolution images, rather they're zooming the image in rather than telling you they don't have images at that zoom level.

 

At least that's what it looks like for where I live :)