EEVBlog Map - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: starlight_tools
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 31, 2019, 11:02:41 pm
content: Is there any interest in a location map for the members of EEVBlog?I have done this for a few groups, face book, and yahoo groups that I am involved with and would be happy to start one for this group if there either is not one already started or there is interest from the group.Location on the map can be pin-pointed right over your location, or generic to within the neighbourhood or just the city depending on how secure you are in wanting others to know your location.The other maps that I have started have been well received and have allowed members to discover that they have neighbours with similar interests and new friendships have been formed by this.

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 31, 2019, 11:14:56 pm
content: Post a link if its not hard to do, and we will see how many people sign up.I assume its not a manual process on your part?

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 31, 2019, 11:25:21 pm
content: What's that? A country icon below my username? When did that get there?I don't think a central repository containing even semi-specific information about the locations of members of an occasionally heated discussion forum is a great idea. While facebook moms can go on about their exact locations all they want, I prefer to have a good grasp of who knows where I live.

author: starlight_tools
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 31, 2019, 11:32:50 pm
content: OK so started I the maphttps://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=3453671open the map click on the additions tab, then use either theadd marker simpleoradd marker detailedwhich lets you add email and website addresses etc.Please make sure you at least enter a name, otherwise it calls you anonymous which benefits nobody.

author: windsmurf
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 02:06:20 am
content: Can we integrate this with eevblog and have Single SignOn?

author: Tom45
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 03:43:38 am
content: I tried to add a marker but it didn't do anything when I clicked on the map to add the location.Perhaps it isn't set up to be edited by anyone other than the owner?

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 03:49:23 am
content: I also had no luck. It would seem reasonable to have access limited, but I'm not keen to sign up to yet another site.

author: cs.dk
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 07:23:15 am
content: Quote from: Brumby on June 01, 2019, 03:49:23 amSeems to work fine here. My entry is on the site now.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 08:39:31 am
content: You didn't have to sign up or sign in?I tried in both Chrome and Firefox and it seemed to be doing something - but it never actually "took".

author: jct
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 08:40:34 am
content: Works for me as well (Frirefox).

author: cs.dk
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 08:41:52 am
content: Quote from: Brumby on June 01, 2019, 08:39:31 amNo signing up or in. Firefox here btw. You can see my point on the map

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 08:46:43 am
content: Just tried it with anonymoX switched on and using a US IP.It worked.

author: Tom45
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 02:47:37 pm
content: Tried again today and it sort of worked. Added a marker but it says Anonymous rather than Tom45.

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 03:07:40 pm
content: Quote from: starlight_tools on May 31, 2019, 11:32:50 pmHow stupid should I be to want to do that?

author: soldar
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 03:14:24 pm
content: Quote from: RoGeorge on June 01, 2019, 03:07:40 pmWho shit on your breakfast today? If you don't want to do it why don't you just stay out of the thread?

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 03:30:02 pm
content: Some of you guys arereallyputting your street addresses in there on a public forum?Getting people to set their country flags has been contentious enough in the past!

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 03:48:19 pm
content: I think town is enough detail. While my location can be easily discovered from here in 2 clicks I'd not go around putting my name on a map in my exact location. I'll go for the nearest main road.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 03:54:42 pm
content: Quote from: starlight_tools on May 31, 2019, 11:32:50 pmSo you own Zee maps or in just 10 posts did you decide we all need to know where we all live including thue internet at wide before they even log in?

author: timgiles
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 04:08:12 pm
content: Added my pin. Not sure what anyone can do knowing where I live. You can Google that, my DoB, phone number and the rest here in Sweden. So it's not something we Swedes worry about.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 04:18:09 pm
content: Quote from: timgiles on June 01, 2019, 04:08:12 pmi learnt a hard lesson when what i am certain are people living just a few doors down phoned me up pretending to be the police - and they were very convincing other than the claimed misdemeners were so ridicolous sthat I sort of knew something was up. I no longer publish my phone number. i live in an area where people get jeleous if you buy a house because they are on benefits. How i wish I could really afford to not live with the riff raff.

author: soldar
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 04:49:35 pm
content: We should be very careful with identity theft.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 04:54:40 pm
content: Quote from: soldar on June 01, 2019, 04:49:35 pmi think this joke is possibly leaveraging on the bank not being liable if YOU are careless with your information and someone is able to log in as you and take all of your money.

author: starlight_tools
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2019, 06:36:15 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on June 01, 2019, 03:54:42 pmNo I do not own Zeemaps.Yes I have a paid subscription to Zeemaps which prevents the maps from being frozen after 100 visits.Yes I know I am a relatively newcomer to the EEVBlog site, but I figured this was a way I could contribute to the group.Putting your pin on the map is totally voluntary.I have a few other maps that are popular for the groups they are on, and these maps have allowed members to find out that they have a neighbour that is into similar interests.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 03:52:06 am
content: I only put a suburb down - and I won't even guarantee it's the correct suburb, but the postcode is right.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 03:58:46 am
content: Quote from: Tom45 on June 01, 2019, 02:47:37 pmDid you keep a copy of the custom URL it provided? If so, you can use this to go back and edit your marker. I just changed the colour of my pin.

author: Vgkid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 05:45:29 am
content: I put my username, and town. Though now I want to know who this simon guy is...

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 05:59:56 am
content: Quote from: windsmurf on June 01, 2019, 02:06:20 amI just found an SMF plugin, installing now...

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 06:06:09 am
content: Yikes!I just tried to install this plugin and the forum locked up with 502 for a few minutes and the install timed out.http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=4128Never had that with a plugin before

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 06:14:56 am
content: IIRC we had a "user map" way back at the start, I forget details though...

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 07:24:58 am
content: yea, it's stupid, you have to log in AND have that special URL, I won't what idiot thought of that.

author: Siwastaja
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 07:40:17 am
content: Quote from: Gyro on June 01, 2019, 03:30:02 pmNote that they are not necessarily doing that. It's just how the software works: click any random place, and it gives you an "accurate" street address closest to that point. At least I didn't find a feature of defining "general whereabouts".These "street addresses" you see are not likely the correct ones.For me, my actual address is all over the place anyway, as I'm an enterpreneur. No big harm done. Come visit me, and I'll make some bad-tasting Finnish coffee.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 07:47:05 am
content: Quote from: Simon on June 02, 2019, 07:24:58 am1. You don't have to log in to add a marker. At least I didn't.2. The special URL is so thatyoucan edit it later.The only downside I can see is that it is open to absolutely anyone with internet access.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 07:57:12 am
content: Quote from: Vgkid on June 02, 2019, 05:45:29 amI have no idea

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 08:27:28 am
content: OK, I'm on there and I didn't need to logon or create an account. As for the privacy thing, you get a map pin in the city center and that's it, I need to keep SWMBO happy.And I think that having a map of EEVBlog members is a good idea.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 08:33:24 am
content: Quote from: German_EE on June 02, 2019, 08:27:28 amMe too. I wish that plugin worked, but now I'm spooked that it took the forum 502 for a few minutes and then failed to install from what I can see.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 08:38:31 am
content: Quote from: German_EE on June 02, 2019, 08:27:28 amIt is a good thing to do although people do need to be aware of what they are putting up. I know Zero999 personally out of a pure fluke and we are not neigbours, he lives 15 miles from me. When I returned to the UK and joined a social club I put a link to that social clubs site in my signature on another well known electronics forum that we both used at the time. He came and found me at a district event where the clubs all met up and we have been friends since.

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 08:41:46 am
content: 3rd time lucky to make the b***** marker work on the map.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 10:13:07 am
content: Congratulations ... you made it.Now for the $64 million question...How do we control the little oddities such as the pin someone dropped on Moscow?

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 10:17:08 am
content: Quote from: Brumby on June 02, 2019, 10:13:07 amWell i guess he could be a member too. I mean with all these improvements he's making in his weapons he needs to find out somewhere how to do it

author: StillTrying
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 03:04:34 pm
content: I was expecting an EEVblog site map, which might have been more useful.As well as an accurate location, could you please include a list of any expensive equipment, plus the dates you go on holiday.TIA.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 03:10:46 pm
content: Quote from: StillTrying on June 02, 2019, 03:04:34 pmWhen i was a boy my dad would continually caution me about not telling people about what we had. He collected lots of stuff and just in railway gear he had £1000 worth. but these days i see people constantly making a song and dance on face book about being on holiday. I never even found out about our holidays until my dad told me on the day that i was not going to school. He is a bit paranoid but we seem to be totally the other way these days. I work on the basis that locally i am known to be a bit of a nut and nerd and god knows what i have rigged up in my house. For starters next time i go on holiday a sign is going on the door to warn about the 10KVA of battery storage i have and high voltage DC gear, that will keep anyone local at bay.

author: soldar
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2019, 03:32:12 pm
content: Quote from: StillTrying on June 02, 2019, 03:04:34 pmIf I list my equipment you are all going to feel so sorry for me you will feel obligated to send me money

author: starlight_tools
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2019, 02:38:58 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on June 02, 2019, 08:33:24 amDaveCan we get the EEVBlog Map sticky pinned to the top so it gets seen? that way it will be more likely to get used.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2019, 02:46:17 am
content: I do not see any value of this gadget, let alone a need to make it sticky.

author: Mr.B
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 06, 2019, 03:56:15 am
content: That seems to have worked.I will not put my exact address in of course.The city and suburb are accurate.