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This is an old revision of UserMap made by TonZijlstra on 2005-09-26 16:38:34.
Map of Users
There has been a lot of discussion on Wikka about internationalization and multi-language support, which begs the question:
Where are Wikka users located?
And perhaps: what is their native language ;) -- DarTar
And what other languages spoken/read/understood?' -- JavaWoman
Wikka Users Locations:
- JsnX -- Hallowell, Maine, USA [ Aerial Photo of Hallowell ] ... I speak English ... somewhat fluently.
- DarTar -- Paris (11e), France (Italian native speaker, fluent French and English, maar ook een beetje Nederlands)
- GmBowen -- Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada (speaker of often garbled English)
- JavaWoman -- Amsterdam (practically smack in the middle of that map) (52°22' N, 4°53' E), Netherlands (nice page although with a few minor factual errors) ... native language Dutch, non-native a couple of others (English and German best, also (some) French, Friesian, Spanish - and I can still count to ten in Farsi :))
- LaurentBurgbacher -- Lausanne, Switzerland (native language French, a bit of english, a little bit of german, fluent in esperanto)
- NilsLindenberg -- Göttingen, Germany (native language German, fluent in English and some Italian)
- ChiWaWa -- Vernon, France (native language French, fluent in technical English, a few words in german and japanese)
- KickTheDonkey -- Acworth, Ga (suburb of Atlanta), United States. native English speaker (that is not to say that I speak it well). I know enough Spanish to get myself into a fight, but not enough to talk myself out of it.
- BarkerJr -- Connecticut, USA (English and a little Spanish)
- YanB -- mostly in Paris (19e), France. Theoretically native in Spanish and French and fluent in English.
- FernandoBorcel -- Guadalajara, Mexico. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Spanish as native language and fluent in English. Userbase is Spanish.. Will fight anyone who knows enough Spanish to get himself into a fight :lol:
- KarmaTester -- Miami, FL. USA. English and enough Spanish to qualify for above stated fight. Ciao, Bebe.
- MikeXstudios -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Native language: English. Can speak Chinese. I can read some French and use simple phrases like: Bon!
- IvanLanin -- Jakarta, Indonesia. Native language: Indonesia, Other language: English.
- EgilHelland -- Oslo, Norway. Native language: Norwegian. Fluent in English, understands German :)
- TimoK -- Stuttgart, Germany. Native language: German. I speak english and I can read a little spanish, dutch and latin ;)
- PivWan -- Issy les Moulineaux (near Paris), France. Theoretically native in french, fluent in english and a little german.
- GeorgePetsagourakis -- Rethynmno, Crete, Hellas. Language Skills : Hellenic, English, French, little Spanish.
- DotMG -- Antananarivo, Madagascar. Native language: Malagasy. I speak french and I have a (very) bad english.
- JasRandal -- São José dos Campos, Brazil (near São Paulo). Native language: English: Other: fluent in Portuguese.
- OmuzAdmin -- Istanbul, Turkey. Native language: Turkish Others: German, English.
- YvesFischer -- Germany, Freiburg i. Brsg. Native language: German Others: English.
- KiltanneN -- New Zealand 41º 00S, 174º 00E, Currently living in New Jersey , USA. Native language: English - other languages, none apart from American ;-) but I can say hello and goodbye in lots...
- PeterPike -- Brisbane Australia, Currently living in Singapore. Native language: English - other languages, none. Absolutely love what you guys have done....
- RalphThesen -- Bonn, Germany. Native Language: German, Other Languages: English.
- NeoNeurone -- Belfort, France. Native language: Vietnamese. Other languages: French, English and Spanish. Can help with high-level design work and a little bit coding.
- DennyShimkoski -- Mclean, Virginia, USA. Native language: English. Also understand: ONE MILLION (punches in the face).
- NanoBit -- Ulm, Germany. Native language: German, other languages: English, personal website: DigitalFotoKunst
- SpectreMoo -- Alameda, CA, USA. Native language: English. I can read/write a very small amount of Russian.
- GiorgosKontopoulos -- Chios, Chios, Greece. Languages: Greek, English, a little spanish.
- RogerD -- Christchurch, New Zealand. English (or at least the kiwi version of it) and a smattering of handy local phrases in a few languages e.g. "One beer please" and "No, I don't want another fake Rolex" (ok, so that's only useful in certain Asia backstreets).
- CharlotteFischer -- Oakland County, Michigan (Detroit suburbs). (Native Language: English ... I recall someone saying that if you speak three languages you're tri-lingual, if you speak two languages you're bi-lingual, and if you speak one language, you're American ... I'm American and I envy those of you who can speak other languages!)
- TonZijlstra -- Enschede, Netherlands. Native language Dutch, fluent in English and German, basic French, understand Frisian.
Usermap software
It would be nice to create a user map. Check the following links for examples:
http://www.mirc.net/map/
http://cpdn.comlab.ox.ac.uk/map/
http://www.phpbb.com/map.php
piranha-fury.com Nice static usermap by continent - source not available
Yabb membermap Idem - it's a Perl module for the Yabb forum
phpnuke.org Flash map for phpnuke - source not available
last link doesn't show any map for me - anyone else have that problem? -- JW
Works fine for me on Mac OS X + Safari - have you installed a flash plugin? -- DarTar
Ah. No Flash (I don't do Flash, actively or passively) -- JW
Maybe you know of a good Java alternative ;) -- DarTar
Any suggestions on an easy way to create a user map?
Specifying latitude and longitude would be a start (so I did) -- JavaWoman
Uhm, I think there is a lot of software of this kind around, mostly Flash or Java - see these links
Next step: a usermap Wikka action! -- DarTar
Just stumbled onto an awesome mapping service - maybe we could somehow "borrow" from that?
I found it via a map thumbnail on a blog page, which linked to this map (just to show you an example) where you can "zoom" into continents as well. See links at the bottom to HitMaps and BuddySpace for how this is done.
(Needless to say, I immediately added this to my travel blog!)
-- JavaWoman
More pages about mapping that someone just pointed me to: FreeGIS and MapServer - note the mention of PHP on the last.
--JavaWoman
The Yabb-Mod mentioned above unfortunatly is not licensed under the GPL, I would translate it to php if it were.
But an action for this would be really cool, I will start thinking about the how and the when :) Since I have been bored a lot lately chances are not to bad I will come up with something soon.
--TimoK
Google just released Google Maps API, perhaps we can use it to track Wikka's users? But it's still in beta state. --PivWan
- Google likes Beta-status :) But I've opened up GoogleMap. --NilsLindenberg
A free service that allows the creation of usermaps through Google Maps API and allows integration into external websites: http://www.mapbuilder.net/
And here's a test usermap:
-- DarTar
- Forget about this, it is so much better to directly use the Google Maps API, as suggested by PivWan and NilsLindenberg. Here's a dartar.free.fr/w/?wakka=map first test of a {{googlemap}} action -- DarTar
