How Do I Plot The Biostar Users Onto A Google Map?

Question

[Egon Willighagen]

BioStar has quite grown (see Helping BioStar grow), and was wondering which users live in my area (Stockholm, Sweden). Is it possible to plot all users onto a Google Map?

[Egon Willighagen]

This is a stub... the answer is here

[Egon Willighagen]

We wait for Neil to put in his answer, so that we can all upvote his great blog post! (IMHO)

[biobot 0.0.77.a.1099]

I looks (thankfully) like you must be a moderator to harvest other users' IP addresses.

[biobot 0.0.77.a.1099]

It looks (thankfully) like you must be a moderator to harvest other users' IP addresses.

Answer 1

[Neilfws]

I'm so glad that you asked this question :-)

See the blog post and the Github repo.

And no, you don't have to vote up this answer; perhaps it should be community wiki?

Answer 2

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

Another solution, using the privilege of being a Biostar administrator, XML and XSLT: see my blog post.

[Egon Willighagen]

What happens if more than one person lives in a particular place?

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

I'm afraid the universe would collapse.

[Michi]

good thing i told nobody in my lab about biosar! ;-)

[Michi]

good thing i told nobody in my lab about biosar! ;-) did you include all the users, or only from a certain reputation/regularity?

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

@dmeu: I put all the users.

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

and why this "good thing i told nobody in my lab about biostar"... ?

[Egon Willighagen]

Actually... I just realized I'm not the Stockholm dot :) I'm in a sunny Portugal :)

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

I saw it yesterday using the non-anonymized/private map. It is wrong ?

[lexnederbragt]

I guess I'm not there because I hadn't entered my location info yet in my biostar profile?

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

You've been mapped in Oslo from your last IP. node id2272293.

[lexnederbragt]

So there are 8 nodes on that single pin. Is that the 'resolution' you get?