World Map (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/worldmap.php).
Just wondering what's been happening with this thing - it's been offline for quite some time now.
Anyone know anything about this?
I remember CJ talking about it not being very well made and useful blah bla bla and don't have the time to make it better.
But I just have an idea, at least for XP users, that we can install Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/), and pass out .kmz files that hold your locations (better yet, someone hosts a most updated version of the kmz file, which every AGSer can add his own location to it and send it back).
I'm thinking that maybe the maps page should take advantage of the new Google Maps API. True, Google Maps doesn't have the whole world in detail yet, but neither did the old map system, and more detail will be added for more places in the world as time goes on.
I'll take a look at the API and see how hard it'd be. All the images are sent from google's servers this way, so the AGS server isn't bogged down.
Good idea?
Excellent, that would allow for more detailed stalking of the more sexy members of the forums... ;D
Quote from: SSH on Mon 25/07/2005 11:11:27
Excellent, that would allow for more detailed stalking of the more sexy members of the forums...Ã, ;D
Quiet! They'll be watching us now, for sure, and for that there's you to blame....... :=
The AGS World Map was taken down because all the image processing was causing a high load on the server CPU; since then the forums have grown and consumed more power, so there's not really any chance of the map coming back.
I like the idea of using Google Maps though -- so long as the API allows us to code it so that people can add their flags easily then that could well be a good way forward (the old maps were getting rather too crowded anyway).
Ok, well AGA and I started working on a map... it is starting to work, but there are a number of bugs to get through.Ã, One major one being that IE refuses to work with it right now... if you can access it then you can see it here (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/aga/map.php), you'll need to zoom in a little to see the person markers at the moment.
If you want to add yourself now you can do so here (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/aga/map.php?action=add), the data will be kept for the final version.
That's a good reason, CJ.
Wow, awesome, Scotch!
Awesome, good job.
I've pretty much managed to pin-point my location down to my street, go Google Maps.
Nice bit of coding!
Added myself. Drop by if you're in town. :=
[PS Feeling lonely down there, Zor?]
Yeh ... It seems I'm the only one in Africa though ...
You could get driving directions to my house from downtown Houston with this thing. I mean, literally, aside from my driveway, every road you would need to know is on here. I really didn't expect my street to be there since it's so far out in the middle of no where...Google really knows what they are doing though. I can't wait till they update the maps for my area and I can zoom in on the Smurfmobile (ask me and I may elaborate/send pictures).
Edit: I just discovered how to find out who lives at each flag lol. Nice work. My compliments to the chef.
When are all of us caveman IE users going to get to join in?
...When you get a better browser? ;)
Adding mine.. not hard to do, there's already a nearby flag. Nice work!
I think it's meant to work in IE now... perhaps not the add page. I'll ask AGA, he's the one who can update it. CJ worked out what was wrong with it for IE.
Actually, for this IE user, neither of them work yet...
Question: Why would anyone who has any control over the matter use IE these days?
Answer: Because some of us actually feel comfortable with it, and prefer it. Imagine that. Free will sucks, don't it? :P
Should work in IE now...
I can see it now (in IE), but can't add a flag. It says:
'Internet Explorer cannot open the site http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/aga/map.php?action=add.
Operation aborted.
Sweet Stuff! Good job Scotch/AGA....
I have a suggestion: Is it possible at the most zoomed out levels to have some kind of flag marking if there's any people in that country? like there's like a lot of people in the UK, for example, but you don't know until you zoom in closer.
This is way better than the old map. I like how you can see the persons avatar above where their flag is. This rocks my socks. :)
Quote from: Pelican on Thu 28/07/2005 23:44:24
I can see it now (in IE), but can't add a flag. It says:
'Internet Explorer cannot open the site http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/aga/map.php?action=add.
Operation aborted.
Hmm. Can't quite work out why that is. I'll see if CJ can work it out, it was him that got it to work with IE in the first place, him being a silly person too.
Woiks for me now...
You people are easily pleased! Which is good.
I want to do something indicating where people are found at a far out zoom... I'm looking in to it.
Aww, good job guys (http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/forum/style_emoticons/default/thumbsupanim.gif)
Thanks for fixing the issues for IE users. And good luck getting the little points to be viewable as far out as can be seen.
I couldn't put myself on the moon. Stupid Google Moon.
Doesn't seem to be working at the moment. I wanted to see if any new flags were added.
Yes, thanks for pointing that out. I know what is wrong with it now, I'll get AGA to update it when I see him.
Out of curiousity, is there a way to delete one's flag, too? Or is it limited only to moving?
Awesome! Good work - I just added myself.
EDIT: Why don't you change the link from the control panel at www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk at the right to go to www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/aga/map.php ?
If you die then we promise to remove your flag.
[...] I think that...in a sense, this map is still in BETA. I think once they are ready they will make it the new official member map. Not that I would know. Just my thoughts.
Hmm... I don't see a reason for this map to be BETA, it seems to be quite stabile as well as working.
Anyways, as long as they're gonna include this again any time soon, that's fine...
Everything Google is beta ;)
Especially Gmail*. :=
*Which BTW currently offers 979.2% of the space offered by Hotmail and 244.8% of the space offered by Yahoo!.**
**Based on the statistics of free accounts offered on each of the three sites.
Quote from: [ ... ] on Sun 31/07/2005 23:50:35
Hmm... I don't see a reason for this map to be BETA, it seems to be quite stabile as well as working.
Anyways, as long as they're gonna include this again any time soon, that's fine...
It's still in /aga/ because scotch decided to go public with it before we were certain it was working perfectly and ready to go on the main site. Over-eager young scamp that he is.
Well it was working :P it just needed some beta testing, and still does, like we probably wouldn't have noticed the bug that broke it just then without a load of people entering data.
I think it works pretty well now, there are just a few enhancements that I'd like to make to make it run faster in IE, and to cit down the load on the server a bit.
I'm just surprised that Chris Jones opened himself up to certain Essebs being able to knock on his door.
I can see it now. Any time someone has a question they are going to go to Chris's house and ask him in person. :=
Quote from: Grundislav on Mon 01/08/2005 18:36:04
I'm just surprised that Chris Jones opened himself up to certain Essebs being able to knock on his door.
Oh don't worry, my flag is only accurate to within 10 miles or so ;)
Quote from: Grundislav on Mon 01/08/2005 18:36:04
I'm just surprised that Chris Jones opened himself up to certain Essebs being able to knock on his door.
It's only fair. Esseb saved CJ from cancer
Quote from: Pumaman on Mon 01/08/2005 19:20:46
Quote from: Grundislav on Mon 01/08/2005 18:36:04
I'm just surprised that Chris Jones opened himself up to certain Essebs being able to knock on his door.
Oh don't worry, my flag is only accurate to within 10 miles or so ;)
I decided to change the accuracey of mine to "The George" pub - seemed appropriate ;D
Quote from: Pumaman on Mon 01/08/2005 19:20:46
Oh don't worry, my flag is only accurate to within 10 miles or so ;)
Quote
You mean you don't live on the railway line? We were speculating on #ags about you being a hobo...
Actually, what would be really cool was if it worked like the Marauder's Map and tracked all the AGSers as they moved around. Then CJ could tell when Esseb was sneaking up on him...
Quote from: Pumaman on Mon 01/08/2005 19:20:46Oh don't worry, my flag is only accurate to within 10 miles or so ;)
10 miles, eh? :D That's not too expansive of an area. :=
My flag is literally directly above* my house but you can't zoom in far enough to see that there is a house there.
*-ish. Within 20 - 30 feet.
Just a bump to this... I was wondereing when this map thingy will go "live". It seems to be working pretty well as far as I can see. Only problem now is that the page has strange borders which can be fixed easily I assume.
Well, it has be sorta live for quite some time now... Visit #ags sometimes ;)
But yeah, it could maybe be posted somewhere 'round here too...
If I remember correctly scotch wanted to do some final work to fix it up before it goes live -- and also, we might want to add some shortcut links to get to Europe, North America, etc without having to scroll and zoom around the map.
If people are happy with it now then I guess I don't need to do anything special to improve the performance now.Ã, Links to the main locations would be nice though, and fairly easy, I'll get on to it!
Edit: http://adventuregamestudio.co.uk/aga/map.php ok I added some links to where people mostly are.
Quote from: monkey_05_06 on Thu 28/07/2005 22:35:02
Question:Ã, Why would anyone who has any control over the matter use IE these days?
I know Firefox is more secure and everything... But the ctrl+tab shortcut didn't work with Firefox last time I tried, and it's my favourite one along alt+tab and alt+del.
Quote from: Guybrush Peepwood on Thu 08/09/2005 01:58:46the ctrl+tab shortcut didn't work with Firefox last time I tried
If that's supposed to switch between the open tabs, it does now.
I like this new idea!!! I added myself, google maps is extreemly accurate, I even found the little hill I live on!!
Thanks to scotch and AGA for their work getting this up and running ... it is now official, and the links on the website have been updated.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/worldmap.php
Nice work :=
It's good to see it all official.
Oh man.. I had a cool idea for the map: how about landmarks to where the respective mittens/brittens/gloves gatherings were held? :)
And also, games people have worked on the speech bubble! Just a thought... I'd like to get the other idea done first, though :D
Also, kind of an anoying glitch is when you click on a person's mark, and the map scrolls to center it. when it finishes scrolling, the bubble with the person's name disappears!
We did have that idea (marking AGS meeting locations with special icons)... I would have implemented it but I don't know anything about mysql and databases, AGA did that side, and two people working on stuff like this is a bit confusing.
I guess I could have just added them to the html since there are so few. Oh well.
Quote from: AGS World Map Page
The map provides a high level of detail, but you should never place your pin so accurately that your real address can be seen on the map.
Watch the X-Files much? :=
If anyone wants to find my address they can look me up in the phone book anyway.
Yey! Cool map thing, and it scrolls nice and smoothly :D My balloon thing actually lies RIGHT on my house, so feel free to
- Pop round, and visit the Screen 7 bedroom office
- Stalk me, and enter yourself into a free prize draw! (first prize a bullet, second a baseball bat)
- Take a photo of my house without me knowing and win £10
- Take a photo of me without me knowing and get arrested
- Mong well in Mongewell (that map puts Mongewell in such a stupid place!)
;)
I was too worried to put it directly on my house, so I put it on my parking spot at my highschool. 8)
I put my flag about 99 percent to where i live, but i'm moving a few miles away in two weeks, so i don't mind.
So to all you stalkers, i have an attack cat with sharp teeth. But if you feed my cat, i don't think he will mind you. :)
I put mine on my old address... close enough! :)
Mine is accurate down to basically the position of my computer desk. I figure if someone's obsessed enough to come all the way to Japan to find me, I owe it to them to make the last bit easier for them. I mean, that's a pricey flight. Hell, if a fellow AGSer feels like dropping in, they can feel free to - I'll even take 'em to lunch. I could use the english-speaking company.
Quote from: SpacePirateCaine on Thu 15/09/2005 04:50:21
I figure if someone's obsessed enough to come all the way to Japan to find me...
Be careful what you wish for!
Obsessed enough: Check!
In Japan: Check!
Taken pictures of SpacePirateCaine while he was sleeping: Check!
:-*
[/creepy]
My AGS map flag is about as accurate as I can get on the blurry low resolution imagery of Okinawa that they have. I wish they would update it.
Blurry map, but my flag is somwhere about where our house is, so if there indeed is anyone who would vountarely walk towards me, intentionaly... but as there probably are no such people...
I couldn't find my house or my neighbourhood, and just barely recognized my city. So I compromised by placing the flag in the Tejo river.
I was following the train tracks until they went underground, then I got lost. At least pin is placed within the city borders...
Quote from: SteveMcCrea on Wed 14/09/2005 23:29:13
Watch the X-Files much? :=
If anyone wants to find my address they can look me up in the phone book anyway.
Hehe I know, I hate silly disclaimers too ... but there is a privacy issue here, so it's better to be safe than sorry ;)
The day AGS is affiliated with a psycho will be a very sad day indeed :(
Perhaps we should form a resistence early
I had a very weird dream last night that AGA was stalking me and then put something on my back and i wasn't happy. He was laughing uncontrollably, and it scared me. Then he tried to kill me. Well, in my dream he was some sort of demon that wanted me dead. I would go into details, but the dream scared the crap out of me. By the way this was actually a dream i had last night (and not made up). I woke up right after. Sorry AGA, but please don't stalk and try to kill me. :)
I now have holy water next to my bed.
Sorry for double posting. I'm hoping AGA or Scotch could help me with this. I contacted CJ but he told me to post in this thread and ask them for help since they wrote it.
Since i switched my screen name here on the forums i ran into a little problem in the World Map. I was Dark of Night and switched to DOMINO, but when i went to move my flag as DOMINO, it just left Dark of Night and added DOMINO. I don't want to have 2 flags right by each other. Would it be possible to remove the one i don't want. I thought by adding my new flag that it would automatically delete the old flag.
I'd appreciate any help on this :)
Shawn
Right, Dark of Night should be gone, and only DOMINO remaining.
I actually fixed the code so things like this would be impossible. Unfortunately though this doesn't apply to people who first signed up to the map before I added the feature. Shouldn't be able to happen to more recent sign-ups.
Well, looks like someone has marketed Scotch and AGA's idea: http://www.frappr.com/
Awww. Think of the money you could've made
Not to be funny see no ones pins???
Zoom in and you'll see the flags