I was going to chime in earlier about this being a possible future feature but knowing how much effort it was I was curious to see if anyone would bring it up... :)
On TakingITGlobal we recently migrated our databases to being able to do this over a 6-month period but it was quite a bit of effort because it meant migrating our old database of plain-text city/state fields (for users, organizations, events, and projects) to actually matching them up to a database of cities and states with Long/Lat information. It's something we can explore in the future for DDN but requires a lot of massaging for existing data to make it match up nicely. It enables some cool features though for us at TIG, like Members Online Map: http://www.takingitglobal.org/members/membermap.html and Organizations by City: http://www.takingitglobal.org/resources/orgs/orgmap.html?CountryID=2&Zoo mCityID=2818343 We'll keep it in mind as a rainy-day project once some of the other improvements have been taken care of! Cheers, -- Michael Michael Furdyk | Director of Technology TakingITGlobal | www.takingitglobal.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Carvin Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 9:46 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] Add yourself to the DDN world map! We wouldn't be able to use Frappr, then - we would have to set up our own Google Map from scratch. Technically this is possible. But there's no way this could be a priority in the short term, because the limited money DDN has is going to transferring DDN to TakingITGlobal, and hopefully offering stipends to editors. Anything after that will have to be decided by the TakingITGlobal team after I'm gone. andy Dave A. Chakrabarti wrote: > Andy, > > A great resource, and one that is much appreciated. Would it be possible > to include a "location" field in our profile information, which > automatically adds us to the map? I know this is possible in some > content management systems, but not sure how hard it would be to add > this functionality to DDN...but it'd be great! Other ideas: adding > website URL information to the map information popup, so it's easier to > find information on people we find. I just found a fellow Chicagoan on > DDN who I didn't know, but there's no easy way to find out more about > his organizations / work... > > A lot of requests, I know...but thanks for the map! > > Dave. > > ------------------- > Dave A. Chakrabarti > Projects Coordinator > CTCNet Chicago > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (708) 919 1026 > ------------------- > > > > > Andy Carvin wrote: > >>Hi everyone, >> >>I've just added a new DDN community for hosting a copy of the map: >> >>http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/map >> >>You can use this page to explore the map or add your on pin to the map. >>It's also a featured community, so there's a link to the community on >>the homepage, under the name "DDN Member Map." >> >>andy >> >>Andy Carvin wrote: >> >>>Hi everyone, >>> >>>Just for kicks, I've created a new DDN member map on Frappr.com. >>>Frappr uses Google Maps to let you create a map showing the locations >>>of people affiliated to a community of interest. With the Frappr map, >>>DDN members can pinpoint their location in the world and let others >>>know where they're located. >>> >>>Please feel free to try it out here: >>> >>>http://www.frappr.com/digitaldividenetworkmembers >>> >>>Would be curious to hear from any regular Frappr users if they think >>>the tool could be useful to DDN. >>> >>>thanks, >>>andy >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. -- ------------------------------ Andy Carvin acarvin (at) edc . org andycarvin (at) yahoo . com http://www.andycarvin.com http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.pbs.org/learningnow ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
