Browncoats Around the World Map.

POSTED BY: Haken
UPDATED: Monday, January 9, 2006 17:19
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HAKEN

Saturday, December 24, 2005 3:34 AM

So I had a little time to kill while members of my family were shopping. It's a little buggy at the moment, but give it a whirl and let me know what you think.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/browncoatmap.asp

FOLLOWMAL

Saturday, December 24, 2005 3:40 AM

I like it!!

But I can't enter me yet, the Geocoder can't find my little town! Doesn't surprise me none, but I'll check some local stuff and come back.

"Why did this get so complicated?" Mal

FLIPDOG

Saturday, December 24, 2005 5:17 AM

Only problem is the quadrant functions. It says I'm in Asia.

THISODDFEMME

Saturday, December 24, 2005 5:25 AM

This is so cool. You rock Haken.

For some reason, I'm in Antarctica. Either the geocoder thing is off or the map is off.

JAYSONAYCH

Saturday, December 24, 2005 5:50 AM

Maybe something could be set up on Frappr... http://www.frappr.com/

HAKEN

Saturday, December 24, 2005 7:52 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JaysonAych:
Maybe something could be set up on Frappr...

Yeah, but then I wouldn't learn anything.

HAKEN

Saturday, December 24, 2005 8:14 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by FlipDog:
Only problem is the quadrant functions. It says I'm in Asia.

Yeah, had a bug. Problem fixed. If you enter your long/lat again, it should put you at the right location.

FLIPDOG

Saturday, December 24, 2005 8:22 AM

Sweeeeeet!!!! Yeah Idaho...

CBY

Saturday, December 24, 2005 10:42 AM

Damn, it made me an North West African

It's not so easy to find the right values. Most pages only work for the USA.

FILLYGIRL

Saturday, December 24, 2005 10:54 AM

That's awsome Haken

...it's worst than you know...Operative
...it usually is.....Mal

HAKEN

Saturday, December 24, 2005 11:39 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by CBY:
Damn, it made me an North West African

It's not so easy to find the right values. Most pages only work for the USA.

Yeah. And, really, for our purpose here on FFF.NET, it needn't be since it's all in fun. Besides, the coordinates derived from geocoding isn't very accurate.

I don't have a GPS, nor a GPS feature on my cell phone, but if you do, I would like to see how accurate those coordinates are when plotted on the Google map.

Haken

BRITCHICK

Saturday, December 24, 2005 3:03 PM

UK browncoats, you can get your latitude and longitude by going to www.streetmap.co.uk.

All you need to do is enter your postcode, click on "search", then when your map comes up scroll to the blue box near the bottom which says:
"This product includes mapping data licensed from Ordnance Survey". In this box you can click the link which says "cick here to convert"... and you getthe lat and long.

In Haken's map you need to enter the lat and long that are in brackets, not the bit that says "N.." and "W.."

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COSMICFUGITIVE

Saturday, December 24, 2005 3:45 PM

This is an excellent idea!

I've added my name to the map. It's kinda weird and cool to be able to see all the towns and cities in your area, and pin point your exact location.

Thanks for helping out us U.K Browncoats too Britchick!

And, thanks for submitting the map Haken! This is an excellent addition to the site.

CHRISISALL

Saturday, December 24, 2005 4:16 PM

Haken, it's so cool! Mine came up right the first time.
Hey- now I know where you got your tan!

No Magnum jokes-I swear Chrisisall

2X2

Saturday, December 24, 2005 4:27 PM

This is very cool... but it keeps stickin' me on the wrong continent...
I'll keep tryin' tho...

DARKJESTER

Saturday, December 24, 2005 5:13 PM

Hmmm, Antarctica for some of us?

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

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CS

Saturday, December 24, 2005 5:45 PM

I love it! I'm right there in the middle of England

Thanks Britchick for the help, to be a bit quicker Uk Browncoats can just go here and enter their Post Code at the bottom:

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?GridConvert?name=407658,25040
0&type=OSGrid

Then it's the numbers in brackets for Lat and Long

CBY

Saturday, December 24, 2005 6:28 PM

Eventually I was able to leave Africa

PINBALLWIZARD

Saturday, December 24, 2005 8:10 PM

Horray for me, although it shows me living in a gutter across my street.

BRITCHICK

Saturday, December 24, 2005 9:05 PM

Thanks CS, I didn't spot that.

H

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GAMESTALKER25

Saturday, December 24, 2005 9:21 PM

Sweet, im right there in good Ol' Va!

You can't take the sky from me...

SIHNON

Saturday, December 24, 2005 10:15 PM

Well, the map is off by a few blocks...I'm due northeast of the location...

I'm so alone. Am I the only Browncoat in Salinas? Ah, sad. So sad.

Captain Reynolds never touched me, all he did was rent me a shuttle and be very, very annoying!

FOLLOWMAL

Saturday, December 24, 2005 11:37 PM

Ok, I don't live in Asia, so I apparently did something wrong. How do I take myself out of Asia and put my self in Missouri? Got my lat and long from a local weather site. Hmmmm, I shall try again.

"This is not my best day ever." Mal

CITIZEN

Sunday, December 25, 2005 1:43 AM

Haken, as always, a brilliant idea

Excuse me I'm drunk at the moment, Christmas eve party, just got back, you understand, I hope...

Isn't this a frappr map? I looks identicle? Did you make it yourself?

Either way its great .

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
Remember, the ice caps aren't melting, the water is being liberated.

SPINLAND

Sunday, December 25, 2005 2:17 AM

Most cool. Even drunk off my kiester I managed to get it right the first time. Thanks for the new toy!

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CASTIRONJACK

Sunday, December 25, 2005 2:47 AM

This is awesome! You might think to make it a feature on the home page!

Jack, Chief Nurse of Destiny

MAUGWAI

Sunday, December 25, 2005 3:17 AM

Brilliant! This will make get togethers easier.

"Dear diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy."

MAKESUSMIGHTY

Sunday, December 25, 2005 3:54 AM

For Long. and Lat. numbers you can get them from many maps. If you know any pilots, or are near an airport (one for small planes) they will have an accurate avation map called a sectional map. Or you can just use the numbers of the airport itself.

HAKEN

Sunday, December 25, 2005 4:30 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by citizen:
Isn't this a frappr map? I looks identicle? Did you make it yourself?

It looks the same because Frappr uses the same Google Map API.

CITIZEN

Sunday, December 25, 2005 10:32 AM

ahh, that explains it. Very impressive, thanks a lot.

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
Remember, the ice caps aren't melting, the water is being liberated.

CBY

Sunday, December 25, 2005 12:23 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by FollowMal:
How do I take myself out of Asia and put my self in Missouri?

Just enter the new values. The old entry vanishes automatically.

ANGSTY

Sunday, December 25, 2005 12:37 PM

Well, I guess living in Japan would be cool, as per the map, but errr.... I don't live anywhere NEAR there....

At least Melb Aus and Japan are... sorta close.... time zone wise...???

JAKE7

Sunday, December 25, 2005 4:49 PM

Pretty cool, Haken! Got my pin in the right place first try!

Doesn't play nice with Netscape, though. Had to bring up IE to see the map...

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MAL: Everybody's makin' a fuss.

MAKESUSMIGHTY

Sunday, December 25, 2005 7:04 PM

I'm using IE but I only get a black screen with a blue border. No Map. I tried to enter my co-ords. anyway. I hope it got added even though I can't see it. Any suggestions as to why?

MakesUsMighty

CBY

Sunday, December 25, 2005 7:10 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MakesUsMighty:
I'm using IE but I only get a black screen with a blue border. No Map. I tried to enter my co-ords. anyway. I hope it got added even though I can't see it. Any suggestions as to why?

My guess is: JavaScript is either off or doesn't work properly (the map makes heavy use of it).

DERANGEDMILK

Sunday, December 25, 2005 9:41 PM

Great idea!
Looks like we have a few penguin browncoats though.
-e

"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

FOLLOWMAL

Sunday, December 25, 2005 9:41 PM

Thanks very kindly.

Oops, I'm still not in Missouri, I don't think. Hmmmm, must do some more searching to get right coordinates.

I'll be back again.

"I'm thinking we'll rise again." Mal

COZEN

Monday, December 26, 2005 12:45 AM

An engaging novelty!

Close. Actual location is about 80 kilometres southwest of the noted point. Of course, I only entered to the .01 minute each way.

On a quasi-unrelated note, it seems I've made a FF fan out of my non-tv-watching brother. Does that seem right to you? Aargh, another boxed set to buy.... It's all Haken's fault!

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PEULSAR5

Monday, December 26, 2005 10:34 AM

An excellent contraption. Aint technology wonderfull?

HAKEN

Monday, December 26, 2005 12:25 PM

Some additions to our little map.

- Map will now center on "you" when you first view the map. A helpful feature for those of us who are not in North America and are across the pond.

- Your coordinates and note will now display as default. Helpful when editing.

- Notes will now display in the popup info box. I'm limiting the length to 25 characters for now. I might increase it depending on how it'll affect performance. Also, avatar/image display is coming soon, but we'll see how much time I have this week on working on this.

-Haken

FAILE

Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:23 AM

I'm logged in but I don't see any options to add a marker. What am I missing?

--Faile--
Firefly Fan Forever.

HAKEN

Tuesday, December 27, 2005 2:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Faile:
I'm logged in but I don't see any options to add a marker. What am I missing?

You didn't do anything wrong. I was messing with the code and forgot to put something back. Try it now, it should work.

Haken

JOHNBOYTOO

Tuesday, December 27, 2005 12:50 PM

Give us a hint on the format of the latitude and longitude required and maybe it won't put a good ole Tejas boy in Southeast Asia

37 25 19.1 N Lat
122 05 06 W Long

should be entered how ?

TIA

PSOLARIS

Tuesday, December 27, 2005 2:56 PM

Hey Johnboy, Go back to the page that has the map with all of us on it (the one from the link above) and there is a space on the left hand side of the page in which you can copy and paste your latitidue and longitude in there. Then hit Map It.

Psolaris

"Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'"

JOHNBOYTOO

Tuesday, December 27, 2005 6:41 PM

Appreciate the response,
I know where to put it... just not the proper format that it is expecting....
my coordinates are in hours minutes seconds from google earth...

but nope...
entering my lat and long in the format..
37 25 19.1 N
122 05 06 W

and it transposes it to
372519.1
1220506

which puts it in Antartica -
closer, but still not Texus

HAKEN

Tuesday, December 27, 2005 6:46 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by JohnBoyToo:
Appreciate the response,
I know where to put it... just not the proper format that it is expecting....
my coordinates are in hours minutes seconds from google earth...

but nope...
entering my lat and long in the format..
37 25 19.1 N
122 05 06 W

and it transposes it to
372519.1
1220506

I use the Decimal Degrees format on the map for longitude and latitude.

Go to this page and do the conversion:

http://maps2.nris.state.mt.us/topofinder1/latlong.asp

SERENITYPUNK

Tuesday, December 27, 2005 7:30 PM

yay

done me

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JOHNBOYTOO

Tuesday, December 27, 2005 7:51 PM

Thanks...
I tried....

but I have to say Uncle....
i'm still in Southeast Asia....
so if youse guys are looking for me there....
take a hard left and come to Fort Worth, Texus :)

Enjoy the movie....
I did !

HAKEN

Tuesday, December 27, 2005 8:00 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by JohnBoyToo:
Thanks...
I tried....

but I have to say Uncle....
i'm still in Southeast Asia....
so if youse guys are looking for me there....
take a hard left and come to Fort Worth, Texus :)

Try entering the following:

Latitude: 32.725
Longitude: -97.32

That should put you in Fort Worth.

SANDRANZ

Tuesday, December 27, 2005 8:10 PM

This is so cool! I've managed to put myself in after a bit of trial and error!

Hell is other people's music

SERYN

Tuesday, December 27, 2005 9:39 PM

Nifty!

Now that you know where I live, feel free to visit.

Stalkers please phone in advance.... he he

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"She's a mite whimsical in the brainpan."

HAKEN

Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:50 AM

Just a couple of quick announcements.

- you can now click on username in info box to get to user profile.

- avatar now displays in info box.

Of course, now I definately have to go and finish the avatar upload thing on the site after putting off doing it these past few years. Has it been that long? Definately more to come for sure.

Happy New Year,
Haken

CALLMEATH

Thursday, December 29, 2005 3:22 AM

Thanks for the map, Haken!

Just wanna say that this site rocks, and you're doing a great job.

Happy New Year!

"Invader's blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!"

BOUFFANT

Thursday, December 29, 2005 6:06 AM

Canucks can just change the geocode ending from "us" to "ca" to get Canadian locales.

CHRISPV

Sunday, January 1, 2006 11:15 PM

Shiny!

Hmm, not exactly me, but still darn close. All fans in the Hays area feel free to write! I want me a shindig out on the prairie!

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!

GALBION

Tuesday, January 3, 2006 5:19 AM

Not sure where to post an appropriate message but just saw Serenity for the first time and I suspect that I am entering the all too addictive world of Firefly (yup, had to buy the DVD collection so I can get up to speed). Couldn't contain my joy as to discovering this new world - but heck, to you all it's old territory! Hope to learn more in the near future (I feel like such a newbie).

Greetings from the Canuck wet (west) coast!

CHRISPV

Tuesday, January 3, 2006 5:33 AM

As one newbie to another, I extend a hearty welcome to you, my friend!

Welcome to the 'verse!

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!

ARTCAT81

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 2:05 PM

This would be fabulous for all the worldwide meetup groups! it would make it very easy for folks to find a group close to them... Have youthougt at all about using it that way?

Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse

HAEKELDRACHE

Saturday, January 7, 2006 2:51 AM

Very nice, thx Haken! ^^

With the approximate soordinates taken from Google-Earth I could stick my Needle close enough to my Hometown. However, there aren´t many Browncoats here in Germany...

Meldet euch, ich weiss ihr seid da! ^^

"Burn the land and boil the Sea, you can´t take the Sky from me..."

Haekeldrache is german for Crochetdragon

SERENEE

Monday, January 9, 2006 5:09 PM

Does anyone know if a second movie is in the making? How do I get on the Browncoats map?

serenee

SERENEE

Monday, January 9, 2006 5:19 PM

How do you know if your DVD player is non-regional?

"You can't take the sky from me."

serenee