A feature on the Chiff & Fipple website which I would LOVE to see, but have never been able to find a way to do is to create the C&F Membership Geographic Distribution Graphical Map Interface (CFMGDGMI). You’d open the page, register, and click one time on an image of a world map. This would make a tiny little dot where you clicked. We could see graphically how the membership is distributed. Would that be entirely hip or whatelse?
Dale
That would be great Dale! Though your avatar is nearly as hip! 
Utterly Hip.
Slan,
D. 
I shall now use the “or whatelse” expression for the rest of my life.
(And yes, cool idea!)
Carol
Well, when you find someone to do it, how about adding a feature where you could type in your address, type in a certain number of miles (or kilometers), and get a list of all the Chiffers within that distance of your home. (Not street addresses, obviously, just their C&F identities, and only if they’ve opted in.)
The current memberlist can be sorted by location, but it’s not a very convenient way of finding your C&F neighbors.
Check out http://mappic.org/. This site apparently lets registered users add pins to the map to indicate the locations of pictures which can be downloaded. Perhaps they’d be willing to give you some pointers? There are bound to be other sites doing similar things; I found this one by googling for “world map pins web” (without the quotes).
Cheers,
John
That would be very cool, and even more so if you could go to the map, click on a dot that’s been added, and see the member name of the person it represents.
Concertina.net has a map like this of its users, but it was created (and is maintained) manually by a guy who looked at the location in everyone’s user profiles and also checks for when people say in their postings where they live. Very labor intensive, and that’s a MUCH smaller board (about 20 or 25% as big as C&F). Plus, if you want to find out who a particular dot represents, you have to ask the guy who put it together.
Steven
I’m at…
N 40deg 50.035min
W 096deg 47.416min
Elev. 1252’
Just in case that helps.
Mark V.
I think it’s a cool idea, Dale. Did I mention that you dye job looks great?
I like his avatar’s hips.
The map thingie sounds hep though.
“Im so hip, I was hep when it was hip to be hep”
-Mel Torme’
I wouldn’t dare add myself to a map unless there was a re-locating feature…I’ve lived in 5 different states and one foreign country since joining in 2001…
It sounds like something that could be with the combination of PHP and Javascript.
Here’s a map and little code to get the coordinates: http://jubileeinstruments.messianic-webhosting.com/test.html
I frequent another site that just started with something like you descibe.
http://www.kitelife.com/guestbook/
Tina
It looks like the kitelife site is using mouse clicks to “place” a location. That would work well and involve a lot less coding. It looks just like what Dale was talking about.
What would be ideal is to be able to read from the registered user database and place a “pin” or whatelse to the map. That sounds challenging for any of you up and coming programmers. My programming days are no longer up and coming.