Google earth for Playak users
Jeroen | January 18, 2007I have been working on a new service that puts registered Playak users on a Google map.
The idea is that my server tries to find out where each user is located and then puts that information in the database. At one point, users will be allowed to change that info (my server's guesses are not always correct), but that's for further study.
One big problem is that we have about 10000 registered users, and if I put all of those on a map, your browser's javascript will go crazy by the huge amounts of data, i.e. you'll wait forever before you see something… I'm not sure yet how to solve that problem. If anybody has any ideas, please let me know. For now, I just solved the problem by only showing the last 200 active users on the map.
The links to the profiles etc should still be developed further, but I would just like to get some feedback first before I put more time in this…
You can see it in live action here.
Enjoy,
Jeroen