Google Maps API Is Pimp
It's not the first time I used the Google Maps API, but every time I do something with it, I'm reminded about how damn cool it is.
It ended up being relatively trivial to show where in the world all the people currently visiting the forum are at in the world. Added some color coded pins and made the pins clickable (you can also automatically fly to the location if you have Google Earth installed).
In truth, the hardest part really had nothing to do with the API itself... it was making a caching mechanism for geolocation data on the IP address (no point in querying the database for all IPs for every page view), so it just queries for IPs that are new since the last time someone looked at the page.
Check it out: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/usermap.php
I'm a boy... from San Diego, CA (USA). And I don't really have a whole lot else to say about myself.
