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This is cool. I think SocialEngine has integrated google maps, and it’s verry interesting.

I would be very, very interested in this given the focus of my site: http://whiteblackthepenguin.net/

An interesting idea. Maybe the use of optionnal custom profile field could make it really easy to do.

I will take a look when i will have the time.

I have this on my site using a plugin I wrote for WPMU, I’m working on integrating it into the BP users page but right now it’s just on the WP Write page to set your location for each post. It also tracks users current locations to display them on a Sitewide map.

I’ll try to get it together to post as a plugin.

You can take a look at: myrv20.com

The site is no where near complete but you are welcome to take a look.

I’m working on google maps now, specially on street maps

There is this also: http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-geo-mashup/

Hey bergsten, sounds very interesting. I tried to install it, but maybe I am a dummy… What does the plgin in BP exactly do? Do I have to implement anything else (besides the things mentioned in the readme)?

Is it just in the backend or should there be something in the frontend?

The plugin adds a Google Map into each profile with a marker where the member is. The member can manually set the location by moving the marker and saving it.

If the member hasn’t saved the position, the position of the IP-address the member last used to login is used.

You need to have the latest buddypress-member theme from trunk in order to see the map in the member profile as I’m calling add_action(‘bp_custom_profile_boxes’, ‘bp_google_maps_profile’, 2); to insert the map into the profile.

Apart from the BP-profile integration, each user can easily add a Google Map on their blogs using the tags in http://www.ezbizniz.com/wordpress-plugins/google-maps

I’ve also added the possibility to get markers from an XML-feed. If you, in the WP Google Maps settings, click on the “See example…”-link you see the URL to an XML-feed that will return markers for 20 of the users withint the viewport of the current map. You can use this to display a map on your front page displaying where the different members on your site lives.

In the “Marker XML Feed Fields” input field you can specify the names of the different fields of the markers returned by the XML-feed.

In the “Marker XML Feed HTML Pattern” you can set how the information will be presented when someone clicks on a marker.

I will write a more detailed description on how things work on http://www.ezbizniz.com/wordpress-plugins/google-maps when I get the time to do so.

jvinch – this is the code I use for the Featured Members on the homepage:

<div class="widget">

<h2 class="widgettitle"><?php _e( 'Featured Members', 'buddypress' ) ?></h2>



<?php $users = BP_Core_User::get_random_users( 2, 1 ) ?>



<?php if ( $users['users'] ) { ?>

<ul id="featured-member-list" class="item-list">

<?php foreach( $users['users'] as $user ) : ?>

<li>

<div class="item-title"><strong><?php echo bp_core_get_userlink( $user->user_id ) ?></strong></div>

<div class="item-avatar">

<a href="<?php echo bp_core_get_userlink( $user->user_id, false, true ) ?>"><?php echo bp_core_get_avatar( $user->user_id, 1 ) ?></a>

</div>



<div class="item">

<!-- div class="item-meta"><span class="activity"><?php echo bp_core_get_last_activity( get_usermeta( $user->user_id, 'last_activity' ), __('active %s ago') ) ?></span></div -->



<?php if ( function_exists( 'xprofile_get_random_profile_data' ) ) { ?>

<!-- ?php $random_data = xprofile_get_random_profile_data( $user->user_id, true ); ? -->

<div class="item-title profile-data">

<strong>About Me: </strong><?php echo BP_XProfile_ProfileData::get_value_byid( 2, $user->user_id ); ?>

</div>

<div class="item-title profile-data">

<strong>RV Type: </strong><?php echo preg_replace('/^.*?"(.*?)".*$/', '$1', BP_XProfile_ProfileData::get_value_byid( 3, $user->user_id ) ); ?>

</div>

<?php } ?>

</div>

</li>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</ul>

<?php } else { ?>

<div id="message" class="info">

<p><?php _e( 'There are no members to feature.', 'buddypress' ) ?></p>

</div>

<?php } ?>

</div>

I hope you can switch on or off this feature for privacy?

Hi bergsten,

I have a Google Map API key but nothing appears. Firebug seems to say that it can’t find /wp-content/mu-plugins/wp-google-maps/js/google-maps.js.php. But when I go there in ftp I see the file. The chmod is 644 (I think its good). I’m looking for my hoster I think its probably around my hosting solution configuration.

Hello,

So my plugin install works for now.

I’d like to know now if with this plugin we can make maps displaying members by group and also a map displaying all the members ?

Thanks