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A map display of SOH member locations....

Navy Chief

Navy Chief

Senior Member
Just a thought...

But it would be interesting to have a map display that would show where all the SOH members live. I have seen apps where this has been done.

NC
 
yeah... it could even be colour-coded to show the level of participation (you know, red for 3000+ posts, green for 1-3000, blue for 100-999 and let the mass that never get involved cover the world in a grey blob). Of course, unless it was tied to your initial registration the 'grey' ones would never show up anyway :kilroy:

Seriously, I like the basic idea.

Rob
 
We did that with the scenery we did when I was with FREEflow. I think they used Google Earth to do that. I had nothing to do with that, but it can be done.

<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2" xmlns:kml="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<document>
<name>KmlFile</name>
<stylemap id="default_copy0+nicon=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal3/icon63.png+hicon=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal3/icon55.png">


<key>normal</key>
<styleurl>#default_copy0+icon=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal3/icon63.png</styleurl>
</pair>


<key>highlight</key>
<styleurl>#default_copy0+icon=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal3/icon55.png</styleurl>
</pair>
</stylemap>
<style id="default_copy0+icon=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal3/icon63.png">
<IconStyle>
<Icon>
<href>http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal3/icon63.png</href>
</Icon>
</IconStyle>
</style>
<style id="default_copy0+icon=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal3/icon55.png">
<IconStyle>
<scale>1.1</scale>
<Icon>
<href>http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal3/icon55.png</href>
</Icon>
</IconStyle>
<LabelStyle>
<scale>1.1</scale>
</LabelStyle>
</style>


<name>My House</name>
<lookat>
<longitude>-81.36102975942414</longitude>
<latitude>27.30412931027008</latitude>
<altitude>0</altitude>
<range>143.6498798894024</range>
<tilt>7.131150752866317e-010</tilt>
<heading>5.271800000013157</heading>
</lookat>
<styleurl>#default_copy0+nicon=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal3/icon63.png+hicon=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal3/icon55.png</styleurl>


<coordinates>-81.361015857493,27.3041423595759,0</coordinates>
</point>
</placemark>
</document>
</kml>
This is my house. Must not be able to post a KML file.
 
➡TRY THIS

You just click on your location, enter your display name, and it places a marker.

(There is code you can paste into the site to display the map. If the mods are okay with it I can post it here, or start a new thread.)
 
djscoo said:
➡TRY THIS
Click to expand...

Oops... I added a marker, but it isn't where I am (in the Atlantic Ocean) and I can't delete it, sorry..! I was wondering how the heck it was going to figure out where I was. I got my answer - it can't, you have to tell it... :icon_lol:

It would be cool to have such a map.
 
...Done....

That's cool!

We can know what part of the Universe each one is at....















(Did I say Universe? Too much X3 for me ......):isadizzy:
 
Done! Close enough anyway...

If you zoom in really, really close, you can see me getting out of my car to open the garage! :)
 
Wonder, is there a way to make a permanent link to the map on the forum menu bars or something? :kilroy:

Oh sweet, you can export all of those markers to Google Earth too.
 
Dain Arns said:
Wonder, is there a way to make a permanent link to the map on the forum menu bars or something? :kilroy:

Oh sweet, you can export all of those markers to Google Earth too.
Click to expand...
If someone made a new thread with the link in the first post, then a mod locked it and made it sticky...

...Henry?
 
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