<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Bill,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I looked into the same Google map idea with pininthemap.com just for presentation purposes. Would work for the registry perhaps if there be a way to limit the zoom so only the administrator could get to detail level. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Laura </div><div> </div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 5, 2008, at 10:04 PM, Bill Christensen wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><br>At a web development conference last year I sat in on a session on <br>Google Maps/Yahoo Maps (and probably some other web mapping software <br>that I forget now). I was thinking it would be cool to make a map <br>with markers for all the SBs worldwide. The big problem is that they <br>tended to be too precise for many listee's security preferences. <br>There's no provision in their programs to show a randomly shaped, <br>fuzzy area where a specific SB is kinda sorta located. It's a pin on <br>a map with an exact location. So there would have to be some fancy <br>back end programming to protect privacy.<br><br>Not that I need to take on another project right now (unless <br>someone's funding it), but they're some things to think about.<br><br><br><br>-- <br>Bill Christensen<br><<a href="http://greenbuilder.com/contact/">http://greenbuilder.com/contact/</a>><br><br>Green Building Professionals Directory: <<a href="http://directory.greenbuilder.com">http://directory.greenbuilder.com</a>><br>Sustainable Building Calendar: <<a href="http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/">http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/</a>><br>Green Real Estate: <<a href="http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/">http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/</a>><br>Straw Bale Registry: <<a href="http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/">http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/</a>><br>Books/videos/software: <<a href="http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/">http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/</a>><br>_______________________________________________<br>GSBN mailing list<br><a href="mailto:GSBN@greenbuilder.com">GSBN@greenbuilder.com</a><br>http://greenbuilder.com/mailman/listinfo/GSBN<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(76, 114, 29); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; ">Laura Bartels</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#4C721D" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><b><i>GreenWeaver Inc.</i></b></span></font></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(76, 114, 29); "><b><i>P.O. Box 912, Carbondale, CO 81623<br>Ph 970-379-6779, Fax 970-963-0905<br><a href="mailto:laura@greenweaverinc.com">laura@greenweaverinc.com</a><br>www.greenweaverinc.com</i></b></span></span></div></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>