Google map of all users locations?

Im looking for the same thing, if anyone does know, please post here, would be great to have something like that.

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I’ve got a prototype working that does what I want now. But haven’t had any time to work on it since last week. Basically it pulls the addresses out of the wordpress database and runs them through Google’s Geolocation API to get the Longitude and Latitude coordinates as an XML feed. Once I have that, i loop through the XML and plot the contributors names and locations on the map.

It’s working fine as a proof of concept but I need to finasse it some more.

I did it a little more backwards. I went into the functions.php file of my theme and added the additional address information fields that way.

Here’s the code

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Custom Field for adding user information
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
add_action( 'show_user_profile', 'extra_user_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile', 'extra_user_profile_fields' );

function extra_user_profile_fields( $user ) { ?>
<h3><?php _e("Extra profile information", "blank"); ?></h3>

<table class="form-table">
<tr>
<th><label for="address"><?php _e("Address"); ?></label></th>
<td>
<input type="text" name="address" id="address" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'address', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" /><br />
<span class="description"><?php _e("Please enter your address."); ?></span>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<th><label for="city"><?php _e("City"); ?></label></th>
<td>
<input type="text" name="city" id="city" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'city', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" /><br />
<span class="description"><?php _e("Please enter your city."); ?></span>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<th><label for="state"><?php _e("State"); ?></label></th>
<td>
<input type="text" name="state" id="province" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'state', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" /><br />
<span class="description"><?php _e("Please enter your state."); ?></span>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<th><label for="postalcode"><?php _e("Postal Code"); ?></label></th>
<td>
<input type="text" name="postalcode" id="postalcode" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'postalcode', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" /><br />
<span class="description"><?php _e("Please enter your postal code."); ?></span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php }

add_action( 'personal_options_update', 'save_extra_user_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile_update', 'save_extra_user_profile_fields' );

function save_extra_user_profile_fields( $user_id ) {

if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_user', $user_id ) ) { return false; }

update_user_meta( $user_id, 'address', $_POST['address'] );
update_user_meta( $user_id, 'city', $_POST['city'] );
update_user_meta( $user_id, 'state', $_POST['state'] );
update_user_meta( $user_id, 'postalcode', $_POST['postalcode'] );

}

Then I’m using a custom page type to write in my own PHP and Javascript code. to pull it back out.

Like I saids it’s just a basic proof of concept at this point, but I’m pretty sure it will work for my needs.

Philip

hey guys, ive been looking for something similar, im working on an online dating site and id like to be able to show all users who are currently online, aswell as *optional* be able to show location of users offline.

I have however found a decent substitute that actually has suited my needs pretty well and may fix all of your problems. It uses ip of the user to mark where they are connecting from, it shows active users as green dots and it shows a world map you can scroll over on, the coolest feature is that is shows the users display name along with the city, state/country

the name of plugin is “Visitor Maps and Who’s Online”

you can see a demo here on my site: goto members only portal then Members only GPS Locator http://thehotline.conceptproductionz.com
create an account, its free, only takes a second, and will help me out with my beta testing, please feel free to use the services and spread the word.

hope this helps

ps – if somebody can find a google maps version of what this plugin does, thats what id like, as you know google maps can zoom down to street level etc… which this plugin cant do.