New Google Maps

[pbrown]

I've wanted to do this for a long time and it is finaly done. We now have a Google map that will show your location if you decide to add yourself. Look at the menu to the left side of the home page and give it a try.

Only registered users can see the map.

[Jerry Cowing]

First two posts to the map are about as far apart as you can get unless you go to Alaska.

[pbrown]

I'm seeing that users are all getting the same error message. You need to fill in the first two fields. The third (URL) field is optional.

[ralphscott]

Pretty Cool!!

Thanks Patrick

Ralph Scott

[Naumoff]

I'm on. Very nice.

[RJacobsen]

Patrick, that’s awesome, its fun to see where everyone is located. And when I zoom in on yours in the satellite mode I think I see you barbecuing in the backyard.

[pgermond]

Very cool stuff.... provides an interesting perspective Is there a prize for the least on either side of the Mississippi?

[will butterworth]

it.Where we stay,Good Patrick.Will-alabama

[spd4me]

We loose more of our privacy everyday. You can go to google, enter your phone number in the search and it will pull up your name and address and a map how to get to your house. Not a good idea if you have young daughters. There's a place where you can have you number removed.
Bob

[TAGCAVE]

Patrick,

Love the Google map additon to the forum.

Rodney

[TurnpikeBoy]

We loose more of our privacy everyday. You can go to google, enter your phone number in the search and it will pull up your name and address and a map how to get to your house. Not a good idea if you have young daughters. There's a place where you can have you number removed.
Bob

Huh? If you're uncomfortable with this map, don't put a pin in Birmingham. There's no obligation - Patrick did it just for fun.

Relax, Bob - your daughters are utterly, absolutely safe on this forum. And to be honest, I don't know if FaceBook or MySpace or any of the others have Patrick's map.....but I kinda doubt it .


-Roger

[spd4me]

I think the map is great. The point I was making is there's more info on us out there than we know about. Your right, I do need a pin in Birmingham. After all, there probably half a dozen unique cars here.
Bob

[RJacobsen]

Patrick, I have been checking the map the last 2 nights to see who might have added pins but I now don't see any pins at all. Is it me or the map?

[weaver]

Same here.

Alan

[pbrown]

No pins for me neither. I'll get it fixed.

[pbrown]

It's fixed. It turns out that there is a bug. If a member enters the & character in the image field, it breaks. I had to delete Stan's pin.

Stan - you need to reenter your pin but without the & in the image URL.

[pgermond]

It looks as though there won't be any images posted until the bug is fixed - every URL that I use for images contains the "&" sign.

[pbrown]

Images can be placed in the member galleries and linked to via the Direct Link Code.

[pgermond]

Images can be placed in the member galleries and linked to via the Direct Link Code.

Can you explain?

[pbrown]

Go to the gallery and view any image. Below the image will be a field called Direct Link Code:. Copy the contents of that field and paste it into the image field in the Google Map.