By irokin on January 31, 2010, 11:36:35Heres a new toy I knocked up over the past few days, something that Teddys been bugging me to do for a while. Cool idea and great to see it finally come to fruition.
Presenting the Rollaclub World Map!
http://www.rollaclub.com/map/The idea is that members from anywhere in the world drop their location on the map and we get a cool visual of where your fellow members hail from. You can then click the balloon to see a little bit of information about that member. While you can zoom down to street level and leave a really exact location I'd recommend putting it at perhaps a major intersection or landmark near your house. Its entirely up to you how accurate you want to leave your location but that would be my suggestion. Its also completely optional as to whether you leave your location or not. If you don't feel comfortable thats fine and you can remove your location at any time you wish.
It also doubles as a help finder. If you're looking for help in your local area you can zoom down to your area and have a look if anyone is close to you. If they have "Help Available" set to Yes then they're happy for you to contact them for help. Of course its no guarantee that they will be able to or available at that particular time but it helps narrow your search down. You can PM them by clicking the balloon and clicking on their name to go to their profile.
Its still in development so don't be surprised to see changes. Also Internet Explorer wont cope well with over 100 balloons on the map, regardless of how fast your computer is. I suggest if you are still using IE either
Get Firefox, the bitchinest IE replacement ever, or the
Google Chrome Frame which will allow for a performance increase but let you continue to use Internet Explorer.
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