dhall_polo
Well Known Member
I should have been working on my rv7 project, but I got a wild hair to play with google earth.
Want to see where we all live? Go to my website and look for the link to download the VAF google earth file. Save it to your computer and you can load into google earth. If you don't have google earth installed yet, it's a free download at earth.google.com. I've also added a gallery with a few pics to show what it looks like. I used the locations we've listed on our profiles to create a map of VAF members. The locations in the profiles are no more granular than city/state at best, but I've translated as many as I could to the center of whatever geography the user listed.
Any user that has been active within the past two years with a semi-valid location in their profile is shown. If there's interest on the forum, it'd be neat to push active members to update their profile with other information, like airport identifier. Then you could easily see every RV at a particular airport, maybe with a finished pic. I could easily modify and update this kmz.
Try it out for fun. Feedback welcome.
*Right away, you'll probably notice that some folks are listed as being from crazy places, like Antarctica. It's because they listed indeterminate locations like "x" or "bonney lake". For whatever reason, google decided those locations may as well be at the south pole somewhere. By far, the majority of users have locations that seem to translate somewhere in the ballpark. I also added some level of intelligent translation to pick "south dakota" over "sudan" when given multiple possibilities.
Thanks,
Don
By dhall_polo at 2008-11-23
Want to see where we all live? Go to my website and look for the link to download the VAF google earth file. Save it to your computer and you can load into google earth. If you don't have google earth installed yet, it's a free download at earth.google.com. I've also added a gallery with a few pics to show what it looks like. I used the locations we've listed on our profiles to create a map of VAF members. The locations in the profiles are no more granular than city/state at best, but I've translated as many as I could to the center of whatever geography the user listed.
Any user that has been active within the past two years with a semi-valid location in their profile is shown. If there's interest on the forum, it'd be neat to push active members to update their profile with other information, like airport identifier. Then you could easily see every RV at a particular airport, maybe with a finished pic. I could easily modify and update this kmz.
Try it out for fun. Feedback welcome.
*Right away, you'll probably notice that some folks are listed as being from crazy places, like Antarctica. It's because they listed indeterminate locations like "x" or "bonney lake". For whatever reason, google decided those locations may as well be at the south pole somewhere. By far, the majority of users have locations that seem to translate somewhere in the ballpark. I also added some level of intelligent translation to pick "south dakota" over "sudan" when given multiple possibilities.
Thanks,
Don
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By dhall_polo at 2008-11-23