JWMB Feature - Member Map, Members Gallery

[chester7777]

Originally posted by Kevin@Dec 27 2005, 07:58 PM
Alrighty, we now have a new feature called the Google Member Map system. This is where members (who want too) can pin thier location on the map anywhere in the world!!

Man, this thing makes the world look small, and lets us all see your approx. location. Remember no street address is posted on the maps or on the site, it just uses the Latitude-Longitude Coords for your location.* So your not giving out directions to your home, your just giving your general location.

There is a new link at the top of the forum, just click the Member Map link to check it out.
Kevin

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The above post is copied from Board News and Announcements.

I got us logged in on the map, and it is pretty cool!

There is a secondary site you have to go to, to get your latitude and longitute coordinates (and make sure you use the decimal coordinates and not the one with the degrees), but it was pretty easy to use.

I look forward to seeing more red marks on the map to see where y'all are around the world!

Chester

[clancy]

I tried it and now I see that there are three of us on the map. I hope more people will do it!

:)

clancy

[Senta]

Hi,
I found my place on the map, but couldn't find were is coordinates of my location. I myself didn't know them.
Regards,
Senta

[William T Brooks]

Chester,

I think you will have to get more Info. up to show how to get the Coordinates on the Map. ^_^

Chilibill

[Jay J. Foraker]

OK folks - I'm going to show my ignorance. I went to the site, but could not find anything that would give me decimal coordinates for my location. Need help!
Cheers - Jay

[chester7777]

Jay,

When you click "My Location" and it asks for coordinates, you can go to

Maporama (it should open in a new window)

and put in your city and zip code and then it will give you longitude and latitude coordinates (in a box to the lower left, labeled Information), which you can copy and paste into the "My Location" blanks.

I hope this helps!

Mrs. C

[William T Brooks]

Well I got it up on the Map, I was worried that it would put me out in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean but it came pretty close!

Chilibill

[Jay J. Foraker]

Thanks Mrs. C - that worked out all right. I think I'm on the map now!
Cheers - Jay :D

[arthurarnell]

Hi Jim & Sue

Thanks for working out the co-ordinates I'm either on the map or there is someone else lives very close to portsmouth that I don't know about. It really is very clever.

Thanks again

Regards

Arthur

[chester7777]

I don't know how it is for everybody else, but when I click on Member Map (BTW, I right click and in the drop down menu, I choose Open in New Window), it opens to a squished looking map of the United States.

Below the map, if you click on the word "Larger" a few times, and then use the zoom tool on the left, you will see all the little red flags as the map zooms out to encompass all the continents. When you click on each one, it pops up with a little box with the member's name in it!

So I can see that Arthur and Vera (Senta) have both made their mark on the world of Duke fans! And so have Kevin, clancy, Hondo, Jay J. Foraker, ejgreen77, dukefan1, Chilibill (William T Brooks), and ourselves!

I hope our friends all around the world will take the time to put themselves on the map.

GREAT, fun feature, Kevin! Thanks for adding it!

Mrs. C

[Baby Sister]

I'm on the map...

took a little doing but I got there.

Baby Sis

[Harold]

This site will give your loogitude and latitude for USA
http://www.bcca.org/misc/qiblih/latlong_us.html

[Harold]

How do I mark my location???

[Kevin]

Originally posted by Harold@Dec 29 2005, 09:27 PM
How do I mark my location???

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Click on the "My Location" link just above the map and enter your Latitude-Longitude Coordinates

[dukefan1]

The map is pretty neat. But, in the famous words of Maxwell Smart, "Missed by that much!" It did peg me living in New Jersey, but that's close enough to my native Maryland. :P
Mark