Mapping the QuestGarden Members

Long day of coding, debugging and datacleaning today. When new users sign up, they'll see a 300 x 400 pixel Google map. They'll drag and zoom down to their home location and hit submit. Thanks to the magic I did today, their latitude and longitude will be stored in the user table along with their other data. Then... (not yet) I can put up a page that shows where the most recent active users are. Should be a great way to show how global the interest is.

Not critical to the tool, but cool.

Spent time cleaning up the user table data, too. Up until today, the place to type in your state and country was just a text field, so people were putting in US, U.S., U.S.A., etc. Now it's a popup and I'll be able to keep an ongoing tally of where the users are coming from.

So far, 17 countries are represented. It ranges from 417 Americans, 105 Canadians and 41 Brazilians down to 1 each from Austria, China, Hungary, Bulgaria, Malta and Cyprus. 600 total. I wonder what it will be by October.