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05-28-2008, 10:09 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Austin, Texas
Posts: 1,543
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MAP ?
Jage,
What do you think about a map that shows the geographic locations of members?
It would be nice to know where other members live and when we might be travelling close to someone.
...and we might know who to contact for recommendations for the area...
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2008 Ford 6.0PSD EB/E-PH SMB 4X4 Aluminess f/r bumpers (13.5mpg avg, 15mpg hwy) 52k miles [Texas McBeast]
2006 Toyota Prius (48 to 68 mpg) 120k miles [Penelope]
2013 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon (15 to 18 mpg) [Johnnie]
2012 Mitsubishi MiEV (no gas required) ($.50/day in electricity) [Evie]
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05-28-2008, 10:15 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Ventura, CA.
Posts: 278
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When I had my Westy I was involved with a web site were members would offer up there driveways to fellow traveling Westy owners.
That was pretty cool .
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05-29-2008, 06:19 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Austin, Texas
Posts: 1,543
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I was thinking of something that wuould just show distributions geographocally by city.
I was not suggesting anything that would involve anything more finite than city.
...but that could certainly facilitate knowing who to talk to about areas of intrest, restaurants, and maybe even driveways.
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Greg in Austin
2008 Ford 6.0PSD EB/E-PH SMB 4X4 Aluminess f/r bumpers (13.5mpg avg, 15mpg hwy) 52k miles [Texas McBeast]
2006 Toyota Prius (48 to 68 mpg) 120k miles [Penelope]
2013 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon (15 to 18 mpg) [Johnnie]
2012 Mitsubishi MiEV (no gas required) ($.50/day in electricity) [Evie]
https://badge.facebook.com/badge/1232...3.32047100.png
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05-29-2008, 09:01 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Washington - Ridgefield
Posts: 4,728
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The BMWMOA (BMW Motorcycle Owners of America) club has a book they call the 'Anonymous'.
It lists members by location (city, state), phone #, and services they offer to other members (KK - Coffee and Conversation, Workspace, campspace, tools, mechanical help, emergency only, etc.). When I traveled by motorcycle, I always carried this with me. A couple of time I called people for advice in finding local facilities, a couple of times I needed help. And you could locate friends in the book and note the names next to the listing.
No names, but still a way to get help and you knew what kind of help they could and would offer. Great tool!
We could do a similar listing. Maybe linked to blips on the map of where we are located. A red blip, a member - no services, a green blip, a member with services - click on the blip for details.
Ok, that sounds like a real challenge to put together.
Mike
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05-29-2008, 10:33 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Parker, CO
Posts: 7,644
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A map would be great. I use picasaweb and if you put the location of the album in it shows your albums on a nice world map so you can see all the places you've taken photos.
The first thing to do would be point me to some free software, preferrably that works with PHPbb that does what you want.
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05-29-2008, 12:08 PM
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Member
Join Date: May 2007
Location: New Orleans, LA
Posts: 83
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Always thought that this was a cool concept:
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101422
They use frappr to offer a place to camp, tools, BEER, etc...
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05-29-2008, 05:11 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Blairsden, CA (when not on the road)
Posts: 1,109
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I know nothing, but what about something along this line??
http://www.communitywalk.com/user/login
Also, I think the "Wander The West" site has a member map sign-up, but I can't find it now.
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You can be anything you want on the Internet,
it amazes me that so many choose stupid....
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05-29-2008, 06:04 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: santa rosa ca
Posts: 994
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Somebody beat you to it.
This link is off of the Yahoo site
http://www.frappr.com/sportsmobileownersandenthusiasts
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EV-2 build is now complete, (yeah right).
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05-29-2008, 08:00 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: SAN MARCOS, CA
Posts: 330
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neat.
Neato.
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05-30-2008, 11:55 AM
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Member
Join Date: May 2007
Location: New Orleans, LA
Posts: 83
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I'm in...
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