Question Google Map [map] tags

Yea, I know about being tied down with legacy code. Glad to see Kunena escape the clutches of FB. I'm really liking v1.6 RC2. It's really impressive. I had one minor hiccup with upgrading from v1.5.6. The tag buttons didn't show up but the smilies did. I just did a re-install of v1.6. The install had kept my old v1.5.6 configuration and offered me a couple of choices of which I just chose to re-install v1.6. It went through without a hitch and now works great. Good work, team.
Back on topic, I've dabbled a little with the Google Maps API and it looks pretty cool. Lots of stuff you can do there. I wish I had more time to play with it. The Facebook location API code looks interesting. I know it's controversial to some, but I think I can at least see a plugin (KED) on the way with that inside.

Thanks,
Keith

Cool, I also wrongly assumed that the address between the tags was the Google Http address of the map.

Brilliant feature, and dead easy to use, now :blush:

Many thanks.

New user of Kunena and new to the forum so.. Hi and great software.

I've had a few minor problems but so far mainly painless in the change over from phpBB untill now.

My site is for scuba diving and I have a ton of user generated google maps with sites marked and info added so how do I add my user generated maps ( old site )??

And while being simple to just write a location in, seriously what use is this when 99% of the time people want to share their map with a specific location down to perhaps street level..??

Is there anyway to perhaps create and add BBcode to Kunena as there was in later phpBB releases?

Please help guys and keep up the great work

Hi!

First of welcome to Kunena!

The map bbcode uses the full google API and anything that you can enter on Google Maps, you should be able to enter within the tags, that certainly includes street address and long-lat info.

like this:
6896 Soquel Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95062

or

36.542777,-121.937084

Hope this helps!

Thanks for your quick reply fxstein. I'll try it out a bit later after work, do you know off hand whether the user id part of the generated link on user maps can be integrated?

Either way it's honestly much simpler for Joe Public to be able to cut and paste the generated links that sites such as google, youtube and photobucket create for embedding. You have to remember most peeps aren't coders and a good percentage can barely get on the internet...

Anyway thanks for the quick response, I'll let you know how I get on.

Cheers, Rob

Just had a play around and really can't get results from this. This is a killer for Kunena for our site, looks like we're going back to a bridged version of phpBB. Such a shame, everything else seems really nice.

It's taken like 3 decades to start getting a standardised web so it's a backwards step when you undo it for the sake of a little coding challenge to yourself...

bfn, hopefully either all the BBcode in your software will be standardised or allow easy addition of user generated BBcode soon.

Rob