Quote Originally Posted by Utopian View Post
Thanks for letting me know. I was afraid it was something like that. Unfortunately it was never used as much as it should have been. Hopefully someone someday can find a more workable version that could be brought in.
The problem is inherent in the way it was done - somebody wrote it back in 2006 and at that time the google interface for putting dots on a map was one at a time. So when you get more than several hundred members the map takes few minutes to get populated. Most forums with the basic skill to set that up could easily grow to few thousand members and at that point the map is next to impossible to use.

What you need is a map that uses the newer interface so that it loads quickly - then it'll be used. There was something like that I was looking into at some point, but I don't remember anymore what was the problem with it. Will check again what's out there that may be adapted for us with small modifications.