Thread: The Member Map

Originally Posted by gugi

There are 2300 non banned members that have been active in the last month.

That still means over twice as many active members as we have pinned on the map. And I know several on the map are inactive, so we could certainly do better. I know as much as I'm glad that I have a two+ hour radius of antique shops, flea markets, etc. to myself...I'd love to find a guy near by who knew something about straights, or whom I could compare enthusiasm with.

Originally Posted by HNSB

Is that determined by sorting the member's list by last access date, or is there some other means of examining the database that the moderators or admin team has access to?

and what does active mean- that they logged in at least once during that period?

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

and what does active mean- that they logged in at least once during that period?

If we're going by the member's list and sorting by last activity or last login or whatever the sort criteria is (I don't remember without looking again) I would assume that's what it refers to.

i'm a simple man and didn't want to preoccupy myself with the true meaning of active, i just left that to vbuddy to sort out

I agree, a sticky would be great. I think it also would be helpful to somehow access this map from the "user profile" page. As a new user, I never would have found this map if I hadn't stumbled on the link in this (beginner's) forum. Of course, I'm a newb in every sense of the word, and I'm only just now figuring out how to navigate my way around the site.

On another note, I've gotta tell you guys that I really do appreciate your site, the information here, and the extreme level of generosity displayed by your members in sharing that information. What an slick resource!!

THANX!!

Originally Posted by dirtydan

... I've gotta tell you guys that I really do appreciate your site, the information here, and the extreme level of generosity displayed by your members in sharing that information. What an slick resource!!

THANX!!

+1 on that. I'm SO glad I found SRP.

So, I put my marker on the map and started to look around. It takes soooo long for the map to reload and then refind my location after everytime I look at a person I think I'm cured of finding a mentor.
I wish there was a way to search for experience and willingness. I'd hate to rattle the cage of the other beginners and bother them. Still, never finding a close contact.

yeah the googlemap is an old, pretty poorly written and buggy plugin, and it writes the markers overlay in a separate file that is then being read, so it is very slow. i don't know of anything better, but i haven't really looked. if any of you has a better idea/solution let us know.

Originally Posted by okiwen

So, I put my marker on the map and started to look around. It takes soooo long for the map to reload and then refind my location after everytime I look at a person I think I'm cured of finding a mentor.
I wish there was a way to search for experience and willingness. I'd hate to rattle the cage of the other beginners and bother them. Still, never finding a close contact.

Yeah, I had the same problem. I found that if I open SRP in a second tab (window) and use one just to view the map and the other to actually search the member list, it saves me the time of reloading the map every time I wanna check someone else.

CHEERS!