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... so would the other person in Gloucester please reveal themselves! 

Thanks John, that sorted it!  Town is the marker field.

I've done some tests and it's using the Town field to determine where to place the pointer.

It ignores the postcode completely (probably because that would pinpoint your garage to within 100 yards!)

I put Chipping Sodbury in the Town field and left my street and postcode as per my Beds address and it moved my pointer to Chipping Sodbury - You do need to click refresh on the map page if you have it open in a separate window.

I did spot that if I put Dumfries (Scotland) as the Town and left County as Bedfordshire it removed the marker, so there is some logic built in, it's just a tad flawed!

This is probably standard Google and nothing to do with this web site.

I'm not showing up at all (Chipping Sodbury) and my details and post code are correct in my account??


[quote="Yorkshire"]
I would guess those you know with Atoms haven't set up there address details within the forum.

I just went into the members tab and then into Update account. When i changed my post code surprise surprise my location on the map changed.

Hope this helped 
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That might explain the two in Gloucester - since Cheltenham has a GL postcode and I'm several miles away from the marker too. Perhaps it's just using the first two letters?

I would guess those you know with Atoms haven't set up there address details within the forum.

I just went into the members tab and then into Update account. When i changed my post code surprise surprise my location on the map changed.

Hope this helped 

[quote="Richard Marler"]
Owner maps are now working.
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I've just checked my area.

You're showing 2 in Gloucester - but I'm only aware of mine. When I hover over the two the cursor changes to a hand implying a clickable link - but clicking doesn't result in anything happening - so I can't check what's being portrayed.

You're showing none in Cheltenham - I thought there were two or three at least there.

I thought there was one in Worcester too - though that might be the one shown in Evesham?

And I've liaised with someone in South Wales too...

Can't believe Wales is such a desert with all those lovely roads going begging !

Yes but NOT THAT ONE 

You do live in the pub 

Maps Cool 

I assume its the one you access via Worldwide and then Uk.

I see you have set it up as discussed to not show accurately where the cars actually are 

But mine now looks like i live in the local pub lol

Can we not tell even as a member which of the markers are which forum member ?

Cheers

Stuart

Owner maps are now working.

Piers is still looking at the persistence of user log on.

Now that I've had some time to get accustomed to the new site, I've got some opinions to share.

I believe that the goal is to have the main website be the portal for everything. To that end, I changed my bookmark to point to www.atomclub.com so I see the main page each time. However, some things aren't integrated as tightly as they could be:

I've already mentioned the login issue, where the forum remembers me but the main page doesn't. I've discovered that this is actually a deeper issue - while the header will tell me "Welcome back Terry", it doesn't think I'm actually logged in - if I click on any of the restricted functions in the header bar, I get told that I need to log in.

Similarly, if I have a PM waiting, I need to visit the forum to be notified about it. It would be nice if the main site could at least say that I have a new message and optionally link to the forum's "My messages" function.

It's about being up to date in two ways.

Firstly, most people are now getting more and more social media savvy. It's not going to go away - in fact it will become the way of interacting on the web in much the same way that forums gave for specialist groups.

Secondly, information should be aggregated so that something posted in one place appears everywhere, thus avoiding the boring and time wasting repetition of input over a number of different places. A news feed working in a sidebar would offer website readers instant and simultaneous access to whatever was happening on the more interatcive areas.

For example, interesting posts on the forum could appear on the site, attracting people to the forum.

For some time, the internet-based side of the club has been practically 100% reliant on the forum. There has to be more to it than just a place for a bit of a natter. Changing the focus and the bias more towards the website is a good idea. It was left as a wasteland for far too long.

It'll take time for people to hit the site before going to the forum, but if there's stuff of interest on the site that isn't on the forum, then that's a good thing.

Take Pistonheads as an example and you'll see what I mean.

Just a quick query, if this were linked to facebook etc, what is the advantage, what would it give members, AAOC. I don't have a facebook account and don't really want one, thats not to say I wouldn't if I was missing out on something?
Isn't having the forum what we are after?

Thanks

Julian