[Achtung!] Airsoft Map of Ireland - Add your location

kdouglas

I threw this together in work today, basically it uses google maps to draw markers of where people are, you can add your own location too, simply find where you live on the map by either zooming in and moving around or enter your town address (probably best to keep it to the locality rather than pinpointing your exact address), type a comment if you wish (your username will suffice or if you want to leave a message saying if you can offer lifts for people that need them or somesuch) and hit the "Add Me!" button

When it's built up it'll be a useful way to find other skirmishers near you and it'll give a nice demographic of where everybody is from.

This is hosted on the IAA website, however it is for all airsoft players regardless of IAA membership, its just a shorter web address using irishairsoft.ie than it is using my personal server

Credit to Lethal_Bullet for the original suggestion of having a google earth map of everybody's location.

http://irishairsoft.ie/map/

hoplite

Handy for when the authorities want to round us all up

o1s1n

hoplite wrote: »

Handy for when the authorities want to round us all up

Nuts, why did I have to read that after I added myself.

Masada

Hmm, looks like Dublin is the most densly populated with IAA members afterall.,., so far at least.,

kdouglas

vtec wrote: »

Hmm, looks like Dublin is the most densly populated with IAA members afterall.,., so far at least.,

as per my original post, this for all airsoft players, not just IAA members

Masada

really? coz it wouldnt let me add my name until i logged into the site, which non members cant do?., or am i missing something.,

Boston

Added. I seem to be very close to Vtec.

liamo333

LOL, everyones location is always in the middle of an estate but accordind to the map Dar lives in a feild in the dublin mountains:D

Boston

according to the map I live at a bus stop. Not entirely unexpected.

kdouglas

vtec wrote: »

really? coz it wouldnt let me add my name until i logged into the site, which non members cant do?., or am i missing something.,

it's definitely not necessary to login, there's nothing in the page that requires you to be logged in to post.... that's very odd

kdouglas

Boston wrote: »

according to the map I live at a bus stop. Not entirely unexpected.

according to the map i live on a crossroads, im not going to point out my exact address for everyone on the internet to see thank you very much

RC car fanatic

ow do i add myself?

kdouglas

follow the instructions....

Either type your address in the bar at the top and hit go, or navigate the map to your location, make sure the map is centred on your location

Then type a comment if you wish and click "Add Me!"

Dr_Pepper

vtec wrote: »

i logged into the site, which non members cant do?., or am i missing something.,

Anyone can register for the website to post on the forums and reply to annoucements, this is open to the Public once they register which has no implication or link with IAA Membership.

RC car fanatic

kdouglas wrote: »

follow the instructions....

Either type your address in the bar at the top and hit go, or navigate the map to your location, make sure the map is centred on your location

Then type a comment if you wish and click "Add Me!"

it wont work,when i look for my marker when im in templeogue location nothing shows up.

bullets

It wont work for me either and I am logged into the IAA site.
Tried using Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers and no joy.

Google maps never works for me with firefox in work on linux or on the pc,
seems to only like that horrid IE

~B

kdouglas

RC car fanatic wrote: »

it wont work,when i look for my marker when im in templeogue location nothing shows up.

bullets wrote: »

It wont work for me either and I am logged into the IAA site.
Tried using Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers and no joy.

Google maps never works for me with firefox in work on linux or on the pc,
seems to only like that horrid IE

~B

have you both got javascript turned on in your browsers?

Masada

Boston wrote: »

according to the map I live at a bus stop. Not entirely unexpected.

Nah, you live in the VHI building, either that or the church.,:p:D

bullets

kdouglas wrote: »

have you both got javascript turned on in your browsers?

Yep.

Weird there must have been some time delay or something.
This morning I inserted my names twice once using IE and once using Firefox
None appeared.

Now when I go to firefox the two labels appear fine.
(They dont appear on IE even though I do a page refresh so must
be crap cache management)

~B

Dar

liamo333 wrote: »

LOL, everyones location is always in the middle of an estate but accordind to the map Dar lives in a feild in the dublin mountains:D

Oi don't slag my field!

MarkLmk

kdouglas wrote: »

it's definitely not necessary to login, there's nothing in the page that requires you to be logged in to post.... that's very odd

Same happened to me, tried to add myself twice but still no.Aw well ill av a look 2moro in case it needs time to load itself?????:pac::pac:

MarkLmk

bullets wrote: »

It wont work for me either and I am logged into the IAA site.
Tried using Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers and no joy.

Google maps never works for me with firefox in work on linux or on the pc,
seems to only like that horrid IE

~B

Hehe bullets ur on the map in 2 places, Dooradoyle n Dock rd, Is the dock rd ur weekend nighttime workplace lol:pac::pac:

kdouglas

bullets wrote: »

Yep.

Weird there must have been some time delay or something.
This morning I inserted my names twice once using IE and once using Firefox
None appeared.

Now when I go to firefox the two labels appear fine.
(They dont appear on IE even though I do a page refresh so must
be crap cache management)

~B

try hitting Ctrl-F5, it forces the browser to refresh properly

bullets

MarkLmk wrote: »

Is the dock rd ur weekend nighttime workplace lol:pac::pac:

you sound awfully familiar with that area yourself ? :p

Ah to be fair the marker is closer to the cop shop than the knocking shop.
Any way to remove the markers? I'm living outside of the city.

~B

kdouglas

MarkLmk wrote: »

Same happened to me, tried to add myself twice but still no.Aw well ill av a look 2moro in case it needs time to load itself?????:pac::pac:

shouldn't need any time at all, once you click add, it should refresh the page and your marker should be there....

as i said to bullets, try hitting Ctrl-F5 incase it's a caching problem

kdouglas

bullets wrote: »

you sound awfully familiar with that area yourself ? :p

Ah to be fair the marker is closer to the cop shop than the knocking shop.
Any way to remove the markers? I'm living outside of the city.

~B

centre the map on whichever marker you want removed, zoom right into it and leave a comment simply saying Delete

i'll then know which one it is because the co-ordinates will be the same and ill remove them

bullets

kdouglas wrote: »

centre the map on whichever marker you want removed, zoom right into it and leave a comment simply saying Delete

i'll then know which one it is because the co-ordinates will be the same and ill remove them

Sweet cheers!

~B

ED E

Bloody hell, boston and Vtec and unamed are like next door neighbours!

The two closest to me have no info attached, third is a tie between KD and liamo.

Hey dar, is your field covered from public view?:p

kdouglas

Whoops, there was a slight bug that meant people were unable to add their location since sometime yesterday evening, it's fixed now though for anyone that was having problems.

Cheers
Keith

AirsoftEire.com

I count 50-55 players on the map.
I reckon in terms of current airsoft customers, there's a least 10 times that amount out there, with possibly serveral times that in terms of potential customers.

Steve

kdouglas

There are currently 63 records in the database, easily 10 times more than that out there alright

AirsoftEire.com

Indeedly, I mustn't have zoomed in enough whilst counting .
Would be great to see what that map looks like in a few months time.

Steve

Masada

maybe change the title and add something like "ANTENTION" or something KD, as it is it just sounds like a map and not so much a collection of players.,

kdouglas

vtec wrote: »

maybe change the title and add something like "ANTENTION" or something KD, as it is it just sounds like a map and not so much a collection of players.,

Better?

Masada

lol., yep


EDIT: maps really filling up now huh., too many to count now.,

kdouglas

up to 71 now

kevteljeur

Interesting idea - I've added myself to it too. With a bit of work, you could expand this with recommended routes to sites, or have the sites as a separate Google Maps overlay with links to relevant web sites or other info - I know it's not what you're aiming for right now, but there's room for some great stuff to help the community there. Let me know if you need an extra hand, you probably know a lot more about AJAX and Google services than me, but every little bit helps, as Tesco says

Nice one.

ED E

kevteljeur wrote: »

Interesting idea - I've added myself to it too. With a bit of work, you could expand this with recommended routes to sites, or have the sites as a separate Google Maps overlay with links to relevant web sites or other info - I know it's not what you're aiming for right now, but there's room for some great stuff to help the community there. Let me know if you need an extra hand, you probably know a lot more about AJAX and Google services than me, but every little bit helps, as Tesco says

Nice one.

Yeah, I was gonna do a .kmz affair which would allow all that kinda stuff but that would mean alot of manual entering. Keith suggested the API version which is much more accesible.

The one thing I would say is can you change the colour of the retailers and site KD? Haven't used the system so I dunno if its possible.

kdouglas

kevteljeur wrote: »

Interesting idea - I've added myself to it too. With a bit of work, you could expand this with recommended routes to sites, or have the sites as a separate Google Maps overlay with links to relevant web sites or other info - I know it's not what you're aiming for right now, but there's room for some great stuff to help the community there. Let me know if you need an extra hand, you probably know a lot more about AJAX and Google services than me, but every little bit helps, as Tesco says

Nice one.

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

Yeah, I was gonna do a .kmz affair which would allow all that kinda stuff but that would mean alot of manual entering. Keith suggested the API version which is much more accesible.

The one thing I would say is can you change the colour of the retailers and site KD? Haven't used the system so I dunno if its possible.

That's pretty much my plan, for now it just sticks a marker on everyone, but I will add extra information so that retailers and sites have a separate icon with a link to their website.

It would also be fairly easy to add a pop out link on the sites/retailers that would use the google maps main site to give you directions.

Grayfox

im down on it now!

kdouglas

upto 88 now, come on people, there's at least 2 or 3 times that on here

ambro25

Am I the only one who thinks having more than the skirmish sites and retailers, i.e. providing fairly close geographical indications of where airsofters and their airsoft gear (which can be correlated using the gear photo thread) are, is not so hot an idea

Boston

It is and it isn't. Depends on how close the mark is to their home. Apart from that it potentially handy for organising lifts and the like.

ED E

If somebody is so thick as to actually to mark their particular house then they deserve what they get.

ambro25

You're quite the charmer, Lethal_B, aint you? :rolleyes:

ED E

ambro25 wrote: »

You're quite the charmer, Lethal_B, aint you? :rolleyes:

Prick and proud of it:p

kdouglas

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

If somebody is so thick as to actually to mark their particular house then they deserve what they get.

While not so eloquently put, that's exactly right, I don't expect people to pinpoint their exact address on the map, I certainly didn't.

weeder

seems im still the only person in wexford

gungun

its just not fair
people in the east,west,north and south but hardly any in the midlands:mad:

Boston

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

If somebody is so thick as to actually to mark their particular house then they deserve what they get.

So someone makes a mistake on the internet, and they deserve to be robbed? I agree that no one is being forced to do this and its their own fault if they ignore the instructions clearly given by kdouglas, but they certainly don't deserve to get robbed. One thing you'll learn is that the Irish internet community is tiny and in my experience theres usually at most 3 degrees of separation between people.

iceage

I count 112 now, wooooow!!!!