Z4 Forum Map access

road warrior · Post by **road warrior** » Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:52 am

i would like to see that too, it would;ld be useful to organise little meets

greg81 · Post by **greg81** » Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:54 am

Right, unless anyone has any preference to do it themselves I'll pick this up.

What are the full requirements?

kis · Post by **kis** » Thu Nov 01, 2018 9:19 pm

It's your baby now, you can make it as easy or complicated as you want! Only thing I'd say is that you should have the user names the same, or even linked. So if I put my location it would be under user "kis" then you should be able to pm or view the z4 forum user profile or something. Otherwise may be hard to reach out to a fellow local member! Just my thoughts

Mr Tidy · Post by **Mr Tidy** » Thu Nov 01, 2018 9:28 pm

That's great greg81.

It used to be quite interesting seeing how many forum members lived nearby!

IIRC it used to come up with a map covering a few miles of your own location with a "flag" for all forum members in that map area with their user name. But you could also zoom in and out.

I hope you can get it set up.

road warrior · Post by **road warrior** » Sat Nov 03, 2018 9:41 am

Carly owners would be good to know too, and then.. Runs amock... Owners cars?

kis · Post by **kis** » Mon Nov 05, 2018 10:50 am

Simple check box on registration/when adding a users location? "Offers Carly services"

RickRob · Post by **RickRob** » Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:06 pm

greg81 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:30 am I could build a wee map and entry form if there was another interest

Good idea.

The old one was, a bit out of date.

Jembo · Post by **Jembo** » Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:14 pm

RickRob wrote: ↑Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:06 pm
greg81 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:30 am I could build a wee map and entry form if there was another interest
To be really clever, if you could link to the date of the member’s last post... as that way you’d have an idea whether they still owned or were still interested in the forum...

Good idea.

The old one was, a bit out of date.

greg81 · Post by **greg81** » Mon Nov 05, 2018 7:22 pm

All these ideas are great, however to tie it in to the sign-up to the forum it would need to be built in conjunction with the forum owners and consider GDPR etc.

If there's enough appetite from the forum owners and to create an API to expose some limited data (username, approx location, Carly?? Etc) to small app then I'm happy to work together on that.

Alternatively id build a small stand-alone app and users would need to submit their data again to that and it wouldn't be affiliated to the forum

kis · Post by **kis** » Tue Nov 06, 2018 10:40 am

I think easiest would be stand alone, but stipulate you keep the user name the same?

greg81 · Post by **greg81** » Tue Nov 06, 2018 12:12 pm

I've made a start building out a demo. The data source part can come later, but for now I'll build it standalone

greg81 · Post by **greg81** » Tue Nov 06, 2018 2:52 pm

Managed half an hour at lunchtime and have this super-simple, basic starting point.

I never actually saw the old map so would be good to know what people are expecting

http://zmaps.azurewebsites.net/index.htm

Flyingfifer · Post by **Flyingfifer** » Tue Nov 06, 2018 3:06 pm

greg81 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 2:52 pm http://zmaps.azurewebsites.net/index.htm

Brilliant! Thats ideal, even just a wee icon like that with the username would do

As you rightly say GDPR would be an issue if a connection between the forum and this was created and that would be very messy and prohibitive in terms of work imo.

djstan · Post by **djstan** » Tue Nov 06, 2018 4:58 pm

This is brilliant! (Although being the pedant that I am, the spelling of ‘location’ is incorrect in the panel that pops up).

The sample user that has Essex as their location - does that automatically default to the centre of the county? Was just intrigued as you have Essex for one user and then Glasgow for another.

Really, really good though - just what we want

ph001 · Post by **ph001** » Tue Nov 06, 2018 5:04 pm

Great work. I'd be tempted to reduce the size of the photo a little. Would it be possible to have a filter on the info fields so for example you could just show owners of specific models?

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