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Re: Denver BYOPVR Meet & Drink
« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2006, 06:46:33 PM »
... but maybe rampy wants to volunteer first?

That would make a great addition to this site. Check out dslreports.com - they have something similar. Very cool.


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Re: Denver BYOPVR Meet & Drink
« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2006, 07:26:21 PM »
I've been meaning to do this forever...  I was hoping to add a field so that it would be automagic with the forum database (people would just go in and specify in their profiles)

There's already a mashup of googlemaps out there... that does this the old fashion way (where users put a pin on the map).

I'll see If I can dig up the link... no sense in reinventing the wheel.

If someone was so inclined to build a custom thingie that's cool too.  They could build it and then when it was ready I'd gladly host it/make space for it...

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Re: Denver BYOPVR Meet & Drink
« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2006, 07:29:43 PM »
found it... it's called Frappr

frappr

does that seem to fit the bill? 

EDIT:  Made a BYOPVR frappr group 



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Re: Denver BYOPVR Meet & Drink
« Reply #18 on: April 12, 2006, 07:45:36 PM »
Sweet, that does the job just right. On that widgets page you can find code to put the map on here, though users would have to go to the Frappr site to add themselves.
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Re: Denver BYOPVR Meet & Drink
« Reply #19 on: April 12, 2006, 07:47:56 PM »
sorry to hijack the denver meetup thread ... but we'll do a little test pilot here to see what people think and then I'll pimp it on the main page and add a link to the top nav and stuff.  :beer:

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Re: Denver BYOPVR Meet & Drink
« Reply #20 on: April 12, 2006, 07:51:53 PM »
Excellent. I humbly request a link on the byopvr page since my school blocks the frappr page. I can add my address from home, but this way I could still view the results from work.
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Re: Denver BYOPVR Meet & Drink
« Reply #21 on: April 12, 2006, 07:59:57 PM »
will do soon-ish...

btw, for the truely paranoid...  I just put my zipcode or town in... it doesn't need street address granularity/accuracy.  Just neat to see who is in the same neck of the woods.

I've attached a map of geo-ip location traffic which gives some sense where the concentrations appear to be...  *shrug*


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Re: Denver BYOPVR Meet & Drink
« Reply #22 on: April 12, 2006, 08:10:52 PM »
Very cool map! Do normal people get access to the map too or is it an administator thing?
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Re: Denver BYOPVR Meet & Drink
« Reply #23 on: April 12, 2006, 08:35:07 PM »
Very cool map! Do normal people get access to the map too or is it an administator thing?

It's from my google analytics account... so for the most part, no normal people ;)

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Re: Denver BYOPVR Meet & Drink
« Reply #24 on: April 12, 2006, 08:47:49 PM »
Wow pjl, that was an awsome idea of yours and thanks rampy for implementing it. I'm not a programmer, but I'm betting you can have a script that updates the frappr page when someone updates their forum profile.
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Re: Denver BYOPVR Meet & Drink
« Reply #25 on: April 12, 2006, 09:11:45 PM »
Thanks Rampy! I threw myself on the map as well. This is cool.  :thumbup:

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Re: Denver BYOPVR Meet & Drink
« Reply #26 on: April 12, 2006, 09:35:03 PM »
I must be dumb, every time I try to sign up for another site or something I screw up... I'm now a Frappr reg'd user but I'm not showing up on the byopvr'ng part at all... Grr!
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Re: Denver BYOPVR Meet & Drink
« Reply #27 on: April 12, 2006, 09:51:32 PM »
The turnaround time on this thing was quick! Love your dedication to this site and the users rampy. We can totally use this info for planning meet-n-greets and I'm sure a host of other things.

And aighead, I didn't have to 'sign up' for it per se, just filled out my location thing and it added me. Huh!
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Re: Denver BYOPVR Meet & Drink
« Reply #28 on: April 12, 2006, 10:04:54 PM »
And I'm on a crappy work PC that may not be showing me everything there is to see. I'll take a look at it later... Figures that I sign up for yet another site I don't need to.
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Re: Denver BYOPVR Meet & Drink
« Reply #29 on: April 13, 2006, 12:26:27 AM »
Wow.
When we realized we were in the same town, Smoky in passing said " we should get together for a few beers some time." Then he said, we should post a plan.

Looks like we hit a nerve...
From that perspective, if any of you guys find yourself passing through...lay over, whatever...
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