Thread: Events Map

David has asked me a few times now (and I said I would do it) to put together some sort of clickable map that people can use to see what is going on around the world with SRP.

Meetups and other events can be entered in pages on the forum, or the wiki, or whatever and be linked to from a map.

I have not done this in ages, and my abilities are barely exceeding that of the neanderthal when it comes to making something look good and easy to use, so please feel free to fix this or offer suggestions. I stole wikipedia's USA map and used gimp to play with it a little bit.

Maybe it's a start (I can't seem to make the imagemap work in VB so just click anywhere on the image below to go to the imagemap). Sorry I did not label the areas. Each color is meant to represent different locales - NE Events, SC events, etc. When you click on them it will take you to a locale-specific wiki page yet to be created



Of course the map should be worldwide and the US could probably be divided up much better, but like I say maybe this is a start to get a ball rolling. Oh man I can't believe I just remembered I told David I would have something ready before the Asheville meet. Sorry man I will try to do better. *sob*

I don't know how much Flash is used anymore but that would be cool to have some sort of interactive map - well, those are bells and whistles I guess. Make it work first, right?

HTML Code:

<font size=5>Events Map</font><img src="http://straightrazorpalace.com/srp-projects/Map_of_USA_showing_unlabeled_state_boundaries.preview2.png" width="640" height="451" border="0" usemap="#map" />

<map name="map">
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<area shape="poly" coords="59,16,34,101,177,135,173,147,249,159,260,42,83,9,81,23,62,13" onmouseover="NW Events" href="http://straightrazorpalace.com/srpwiki/index.php/NW Events" />
<area shape="poly" coords="176,293,151,290,108,265,108,261,80,257,79,253,80,249,72,237,69,237,70,232,63,232,58,226,46,221,49,212,39,188,41,182,37,177,37,170,42,172,33,162,34,157,28,147,30,138,32,138,27,124,33,118,34,114,36,112,36,105,173,136,172,150,195,153" onmouseover="SW Events" href="http://straightrazorpalace.com/srpwiki/index.php/SW Events" />
<area shape="poly" coords="178,293,196,153,247,159,271,160,272,176,346,177,342,170,385,168,389,170,390,181,397,186,398,191,403,191,401,201,413,211,415,219,417,220,416,222,414,225,395,268,397,288,392,307,415,307,418,317,418,319,426,323,422,327,429,333,426,335,416,332,413,337,407,333,404,335,393,333,394,329,385,329,373,328,359,331,338,344,330,353,322,366,324,381,321,384,316,382,307,382,298,376,291,359,269,326,259,325,250,329,247,335,229,325,227,312,206,290,188,288,186,294" onmouseover="SC Events" href="http://straightrazorpalace.com/srpwiki/index.php/SC Events" />
<area shape="poly" coords="250,157,261,43,345,46,347,39,350,50,402,58,378,78,394,72,391,79,397,78,420,65,415,74,424,74,425,77,432,78,448,72,451,76,458,74,459,81,464,80,452,85,467,91,470,102,467,114,474,107,483,126,476,142,486,144,504,135,508,156,506,168,503,173,499,173,496,182,495,181,490,190,486,188,486,186,482,188,470,187,467,184,463,183,463,186,457,190,453,202,448,200,445,205,442,203,440,204,430,205,429,211,425,212,425,217,417,214,404,201,405,193,390,173,396,162,381,167,338,167,343,177,275,174,273,159,251,157" onmouseover="NC Events" href="http://straightrazorpalace.com/srpwiki/index.php/NC Events" />
<area shape="poly" coords="600,31,593,49,593,67,552,81,540,97,542,104,518,111,518,120,507,134,511,166,524,162,524,166,537,165,542,169,554,170,550,178,561,184,568,194,576,176,569,166,575,168,584,151,581,140,622,121,613,108,610,111,607,107,608,101,605,99,612,88,636,65,617,32,606,30,602,34,601,29" onmouseover="NE Events" href="http://straightrazorpalace.com/srpwiki/index.php/NE Events" />
<area shape="poly" coords="420,318,414,311,416,307,392,308,400,288,397,269,419,221,428,217,436,207,460,198,466,188,485,191,499,187,510,169,519,168,523,174,529,171,548,173,549,182,559,186,563,197,581,220,570,232,558,237,556,248,545,254,540,264,522,287,520,305,536,329,536,334,548,356,550,373,546,381,531,377,529,369,524,369,523,364,516,361,511,348,508,339,509,325,489,314,479,323,470,317,461,312,449,315,430,317,422,317" onmouseover="SE Events" href="http://straightrazorpalace.com/srpwiki/index.php/SE Events" /></map>

Another option Slartibartfast mentioned in the IRC today would be to embed a community google map. I'm not sure how that works, but if it works then maybe that is a better way as google map includes so much detail on demand

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

Another option Slartibartfast mentioned in the IRC today would be to embed a community google map. I'm not sure how that works, but if it works then maybe that is a better way as google map includes so much detail on demand

That would be a lot better, I think. This is how it works. There's some nice DIY gmaps software on freshmeat, too. Google Maps

hmm....
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