New Feature! Member Map - Browse the globe for other electric skateboarders

Hey Everyone!

Following up from the member search last weekend, we now have member map!

I’d like to thank Florian from Facebook group who had the idea for this quite a while back and did a really great job populating and curating that map and the concept of being able to find fellow electric skateboard riders around the globe.

Taking that idea, iterating upon it and trying to take it to the next level, this one comes complete with marker pins linked to each user’s profile.

Clicking on any pin will bring up that persons member card.



This will make it much easier to find out who is near you, so you can direct message them, post on their wall, tag them in posts and invite them to your local events in the events section, no matter where in the world you’re based.




It’s also great if you’re travelling or taking a road trip and want to touch base with other riders at your destination.


You can access it from the Members navigation menu, or from a new node in the forum list.






Additionally each member profile now has a map tab.




Location Best Practice
In order for the data to be useful on both the map and the user info section next to your posts, it helps to follow some best practice when editing your location.

Generally I’d advise writing it in the following format using the full words instead of abbreviations:

Town, State or County, Country

eg: Coventry, Warwickshire, United Kingdom


However if you live in a large city, such as London, Paris or New York, I recommend including the borough that you’re based in, or your general area zip code in addition to the city and country.

Borough, City, (State if applicable), Country

eg. Richmond, London, United Kingdom
eg. Manhattan, New York, US
eg. Varsity Lakes, QLD, 4227, Australia

The reason for this is that cities like those are so vast, two users could be technically in the same city but still be hours away from each other. Knowing the borough makes it much easier to find suitable and convenient riding routes and locations to meet for more impromptu rides.

Take New York for example, without the boroughs we end up with lots of users right in the middle.




For privacy reasons I do not recommend going any more detailed than borough though, such as street level.

Of course if you still only want to list your location as City, State & Country or State, Country or even just Country, that is still possible, I welcome you to choose whatever you’re most comfortable with. This will still help when I extend the mapping feature further to include some fun country stats.



How to update your location
Your location should have already been set at registration, but if you’d like to edit it, you can do so on your personal details settings page.







I hope to add more features to the map in time.

If you have any suggestions or feedback, let me know below

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Nice one, glad it's still working!

 

Yep, for the member search, that's correct.

It will do partial match searching, which can be handy for trying to broaden the search or with a search term like Ca, but it's not smart enough to know that Ca is short for California.

That's why I added a bit of extra info on this post about best practice for writing your location.

The great thing about this new map is you can browse straight to California and just look to see whose there. Everyone will show up as long as their location can be read by Google. In this case Google recognises both Ca and California so everyone will have a point on the map.

 

Top top job mate!! Nice work!!

 

Works grand on my iPhone 6S?

What phone, os and browser you on?

I might shrink the map window size for mobile though as it is a bit tall for some screens.

 

Look on the bright side, that means your the Number 1 Czechoslovakian rider here!

 

Wohoo! I love debugging bugs like that

Ahh, interesting! So what what do you call someone from the Czech Republic these days?

 

Cheers dude, it's already starting to look better with the updated borough or town info people have been editing for locations around London. The pins are starting to spread out instead of just being a big mash of them around Leicester Square.

Will be neat to see how that progresses with other major cities.

 

Cheers mate, glad you like it

 

We recently hit over 500 riders on the map!