**NEW** Community Map

[James H]

Hi all,

 

A short while ago, we added a map system to MSW. This allowed you to add your location/town/city to the system which would then add a pin on our global map. When we updated MSW, this became redundant as it was incompatible. 

 

We have now installed Community Maps to MSW, which works in exactly the same way as the previous. This will allow you to find any member close by, who has also added their location. A great tool for finding if there are members near you for joining any clubs perhaps, or kit trades/sales etc. 

 

This is an entirely voluntary application, meaning you manually place your location pin into the map. You can do this manually or get the system to grab your location and drop the virtual pin for you. 

 

If members added their location, this could be an invaluable tool as well as a generally interesting feature here at MSW.

 

This is a members-only facility. To access it, click this dropdown:

 

You will also see an extra area on your profile page, like this:

 

 

 

If you added your pin to the previous version, you will need to DO IT AGAIN. Our apologies.

 

Have fun with this. I'm going to spend a little while playing around with it.

 

[James H]

The system looks like it's importing locations based on your profile.

 

You may want to check that yours is there though as not every member includes their location on registration.

[bruce d]

So you will know, it just put me in the wrong place. I found a notification in my activity page that I had added a marker (I hadn't) and when I checked it showed my location as NW England.

So you will know, in an earlier post there is an image of a map of the UK (perhaps others saw different locations?) and that is where my marker ended up.

 

Bruce

[James H]

3 hours ago, bruce d said:

So you will know, it just put me in the wrong place. I found a notification in my activity page that I had added a marker (I hadn't) and when I checked it showed my location as NW England.

So you will know, in an earlier post there is an image of a map of the UK (perhaps others saw different locations?) and that is where my marker ended up.

 

Bruce

 

If you only put a country, it will put a marker roughly in the middle of it, so you got the NW.

 

Our system seems to be adding lots of markers dependent on what members added to profiles.

 

 

[acaron41120]

How do you get the map to the US, Canada or Austrailia, etc.?

[James H]

17 minutes ago, acaron41120 said:

How do you get the map to the US, Canada or Austrailia, etc.?

Just zoom out and scroll the map.

[bruce d]

25 minutes ago, James H said:

 

If you only put a country, it will put a marker roughly in the middle of it, so you got the NW.

Sorry if I was unclear: I did nothing. A notice appeared in my activity log advising me that I had put a marker in the community map when I had not even visited that page. When I followed the link in the activity log notice it took me to the community map page and a marker for me was already there.

 

HTH

[James H]

54 minutes ago, bruce d said:

Sorry if I was unclear: I did nothing. A notice appeared in my activity log advising me that I had put a marker in the community map when I had not even visited that page. When I followed the link in the activity log notice it took me to the community map page and a marker for me was already there.

 

HTH

 

I see 'UK' as your location under your avatar. I mean that the system looks at your location and translates it to a marker on the map.

[bruce d]

3 minutes ago, James H said:

I see 'UK' as your location under your avatar. I mean that the system looks at your location and translates it to a marker on the map.

Ahhhhhhh ....

Well that makes sense. The machine has become self-aware and ... sorry, I just watched a couple of Terminator films. 🤐

 

 

[MEDDO]

Hah we have someone listed in Antarctica.  Imagine the postal rates for ordering supplies there😜

[acaron41120]

 

4 hours ago, James H said:

Just zoom out and scroll the map.

 

Tried to Zoom out but it seems to not work. Is there another location of the map besides the one in this post?

[James H]

1 hour ago, acaron41120 said:

 

 

Tried to Zoom out but it seems to not work. Is there another location of the map besides the one in this post?

You're not trying to scroll the one a few posts up?

 

That's a screenshot only.

 

Look at the first image and it will tell you where to find it on the menu at the top of the site.

[MEDDO]

I can scroll around and zoom in and out just fine but when I hover over a pin and/or click on it I cannot find out who that is.  This is on a iMac running Safari 14.0.  Interesting on both the iPad and iPhone it works just fine.

[James H]

13 minutes ago, MEDDO said:

I can scroll around and zoom in and out just fine but when I hover over a pin and/or click on it I cannot find out who that is.  This is on a iMac running Safari 14.0.  Interesting on both the iPad and iPhone it works just fine.

I have asked the developer about this.

 

If you double click on a marker, or right click (I think, as I'm on a Mac), I do see who the marker is, but that should be a simple hover function.

[acaron41120]

James. Thanks for the clarification. Its working fine for me. Interesting thing, all the modelers in Georgia are like all the members of my MGTD replica club. All about 1-1/2 to 2 hours away. Oh! For the record I miss living in Felixstowe. Lived there for 3 years in the late 70's.

[Kevin]

lol now everyone knows where to come and see my bad model making

[James H]

We've just done an update on the map and you can now hover over a pin to see who it is.  

[Kevin]

just updated mine to the correct postcode