Z4 Forum Map access

Simple check box on registration/when adding a users location? "Offers Carly services" :thumbsup:
 
RickRob said:
greg81 said:
I could build a wee map and entry form if there was another interest
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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The old one was, a bit out of date.
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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
 
I think easiest would be stand alone, but stipulate you keep the user name the same?
 
I've made a start building out a demo. The data source part can come later, but for now I'll build it standalone
 
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
 
greg81 said:
http://zmaps.azurewebsites.net/index.htm
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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.
 
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 :) :thumbsup:
 
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?
 
There's going to be weeks of work to follow on this including database build, pin clustering, filtering, searching, UI design, submission form etc etc. This was literally the fruits of 30 mins work.

I'll update as I go
 
djstan said:
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.
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Not sure I fully understand? The map is currently set to centre over "UK", not to a specific location in the country, although admittedly I have the co-ords off slightly. Rather than centre the map and zoom to a location I'd imagine best to have it over UK, although there are global members to consider so will have a think on that one
 
ph001 said:
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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Yeah I was thinking the data design through and potentially instead of a free text field the sign up form would contain drop-downs to constrain the values that can be entered.

model: [e85, e86, e89, G29]
Engine: [2.0, 2.2, 2.5, 3.0, M, Alpina]

etc etc
 
greg81 said:
Not sure I fully understand? The map is currently set to centre over "UK", not to a specific location in the country, although admittedly I have the co-ords off slightly. Rather than centre the map and zoom to a location I'd imagine best to have it over UK, although there are global members to consider so will have a think on that one
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Sorry, I explained myself badly.

For the user who has their location as Glasgow, the map quite rightly points to Glasgow. For the user whose location is Essex, the map points to Chelmsford. I was just wondering why that was, that’s all :) (So, if a user gives their location as Somerset, will it default to Taunton, Reading for Berkshire etc. etc.)
 
djstan said:
greg81 said:
Not sure I fully understand? The map is currently set to centre over "UK", not to a specific location in the country, although admittedly I have the co-ords off slightly. Rather than centre the map and zoom to a location I'd imagine best to have it over UK, although there are global members to consider so will have a think on that one
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Sorry, I explained myself badly.

For the user who has their location as Glasgow, the map quite rightly points to Glasgow. For the user whose location is Essex, the map points to Chelmsford. I was just wondering why that was, that’s all :) (So, if a user gives their location as Somerset, will it default to Taunton, Reading for Berkshire etc. etc.)
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Oh I see what you mean. That was purely some random test data. The user will plot their location on a map during registration and they can choose whether to put their exact loccation, or a nearby town (recommended)
 
greg81 said:
Oh I see what you mean. That was purely some random test data. The user will plot their location on a map during registration and they can choose whether to put their exact loccation, or a nearby town (recommended)
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Looking good Greg - would it be possible for the flags to show the forum user names?
 
Mr Tidy said:
greg81 said:
Oh I see what you mean. That was purely some random test data. The user will plot their location on a map during registration and they can choose whether to put their exact loccation, or a nearby town (recommended)
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Looking good Greg - would it be possible for the flags to show the forum user names?
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Not without clicking into a pin or hovering over one I'm afraid. Depending on what zoom level you were are you could end up with several all covering over each other
 
ShaunKC said:
A really nice idea and very good of you to take it on. :thumbsup:
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Cheers. I've been a software engineer for 16 years and done nothing but management and paperwork for the past 3 so it's nice to get my hands dirty again!
 
Flyingfifer said:
As you rightly say GDPR would be an issue if a connection between the forum
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GDPR will be an issue anyway, it's potentially PII data being stored.
 
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