Attached Link: Dot-Your-Spot now!

Hi all, Some of you may remember a feature that we called "Dot-Your-Spot" that we ran on the 3D Universe site a lo-o-ong time ago... Well, we've revived it and we'd love you to make a dot on the world map to mark where you live. Last time we ran it, we had over 1000 dots in the end! [No site login is required] http://www.3duniverse.co.za/dotyourspot/showmap.asp cheers, Steve

Hey - I got there first!!!!

Well done Geoff!

I'm there! I might have moved a bit but I guess I am within 500miles from home. ;o)

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Nice, but it doesn't seem to be Firefox-friendly (no dots!) So I had to use IE (shudder). :)

Doesn't work on any of the Mac browsers I tried (Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera).

I was able to do put myself on using IE (double shudder) but moving the cursor over the dots doesn't seem to do anything.

Hey, nice... more or less I think my dot is in Madrid... IE works ok for me

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The page requires absolute-positioned [div]'s. I'm not sure what browser's support that apart from the more recent IE's :-(

Message edited on: 08/30/2005 11:23

I sneezed and wound up in Ulan Bator..but I fixed that..so far, I own the South..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

I think i'm the most northern so far ;o).......Steve

I've updated the code to show the names in the image mouse-over's too, so those who can see the dots but not the names should be able to see names too now... :-)

"I think i'm the most northern so far " I think I'm the most southern ;) -Stefan

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yup..so far it's Stonemason (a Kiwi? who knew?..;) Lisbeth might have the northernmost..but some of these islands look like dots..hard to tell..;) and looks like I have some company 'round my way..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

Doesn't work with Firefox

Stupidity also evolves!

I added my dot, but it didn't place it on the map. Maybe a useful update to this would be to move it to a database set for Google Earth? For those that haven;t grabbed it, Google Earth is a free programs that uses satillite imagery, and elevation mapping to locate and mark places on earth. It'll do fly bys, and will even create a virtul trip to the selected locations. You can even input your address, or city, and it will locate them for you. I input my address, and we are next to a water tower, which shows up very nicely on the map! More populated areas, or points of interest, have higher resolution imagery, to the point where you can see trees and shrubs in a park! And being able to rotate the view, and see things with their elevation is just amazing. Once you add the location, you can save the personal database and email it or create a link to it for others to look at. Be forewarned though.. you'll easily spend HOURS finding locations, and viewing them from different angles, and using different overlays like streets, waterways, or buildings in cities.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

I added myself with firefox, but couldn't see the dots. IE shows the dots, but no mouse-over screen names. It's pretty cool to see where everyone is. :D bB

Here's a sample I did (with pretty low res sat imaging.) It shows a lake nearby (about a mile across), the local walmart, my home (about 4 miles away), and the blue ridge parkway (about 5 miles away from my home).

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

Oh! BTW I used a photoshop filter for the sky, and the mountain haze. My house is elevation 3,000 feet, and the parkway's elevation at that point is about 4,000 or so. (guestimate).

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

:o( I clicked the map but it didn't add me. And I DID abandon Firefox in favour of IE *more shudder* but that didn't help.

But here's my dot on GoogleEarth :O)

Message edited on: 08/30/2005 12:42

Have you played with the tilt up/down function yet? (It took me a while to discover that one.) it's what gives you the elevation type look. You can also chnge the scale from 1 to a higher number as well, to exaggerate the elevation differences. If you select your location, you'll also get a long and latitude setting.. if you post that, others can just inout that data, and google earth will whisk you away to your location. How much detail can you see on your area? I can make out a water tower about 80 feet across. (Not real high res detailing here.) Check out grand canyon, az New orlenas (if you want to see what the city used to look like before the hurricane), or seattle washington, Chicago Ill, or New York City for very hi res scans. Just friggin amazing. I could even see my Mom's old house in Bay Village, Ohio, and make out the room she added onto the house. (it looks like someone tore the garage down though.)

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

Attached Link: http://webpages.charter.net/gareee/GE_gareee.kmz

if anyone wants to add my location to Google earth, here's a link to my KMZ file: Just save it, and click on it, and it'll zoom goggle earth to my place! (BTW GE tip: there's an option to increase the res, slower DL speed but higher res.) The way I got this file, was to email the location to myself, save and rename the file, and then load it into GE.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

Attached Link: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

Nasa's World Wind is an excellent one too. It's also free.

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I just did it. althoug it was pretty hard as my neck of the woods is getting mighty crowded with dots.. (Southern England) That google earth looks good, downloaded it, but POO it doesn't work on WinMe.. ah well.

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Oh this is great, on my way. Sharen

I couldn't see the bottom of the page to find where it was placing my dot.

Well, placed my dot, but it honestly it seems to be a bit too far in the west now. Well, can't change that...

ernyoka1, we are almost neighbors! :o)

The map worked ok for me using IE6 (no shudder).

Now I'm a dot too! On a map! Oh what amazing technology! :D

So Erinyoka, are you on a island? I'm trying to zoom in on where your pin is (guestimating).

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

That is not an island, it is denmark.

Well I hope I dotted St. Louis but couldn't tell with no state boundry lines showing on the map. Mouseover's don't seem to work for me either.

Damn, by the time i got to add my dot England had turned into the Dot capital of the world... I should move it's toooo overcrowded with poser users here... lol

Getting old and still making "art" without soiling myself, now that's success.

Well, I added my dot, but the display doesn't work for me, so I can't see anything or do anything more. shrug The problem isn't the CSS, it's the javascript. bonni

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Thats me done :)

Yup. The problem here is with the JavaScript (or actually JScript - Microsoft's own version of Netscape's JavaScript). The code is using old legacy document.all -referencing instead of the recommended document.getElementById -referencing (that is part of the DOM standard that came to be something like 5 years ago and is supported by all current browser manufacturers). In essence the code is written in old proprietary Microsoft code and will not work in most non-IE -browsers. Anyways ... I managed to put my dot in there with IE5.5 ... arrgh I also see some dots are closer to the North Pole than mine :)

Tiny, you're in Sweden, right? :o) And Gareee, not on an island. On the peninsula. And yep, it's Denmark as Xantor said :o) Aarhus, to be exact. Sneaky with the kmz file. I gotta try to make one of these as well :o)

Placed the 477th ;)

This is cool, I placed my dot :-)

ernyoka1, yes the very far north of Sweden. At the border to Finland. Not too many Poser users up here. :o)

Not many where I am either. Lots of extra space for poser users where I am on the map....you should all move here :) We could have a giant BBQ.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

You and I are direct neighbours!!!! Were you the one upstairs last night making all that noise? If so I was ready to clobber you, LOL

Message edited on: 09/01/2005 15:58

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

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