two new widgets – Vod Pod Videos and Platial Mapkit
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I don’t see a line sticking out?
(And that in one fantastic image in the current top post. Excellent stuff!)
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Thanks! I do see the line, all white text, using IE6 to view it, right across Barbara Hutton’s face. Do you see that line anywhere?
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I see a line that appears to be a border (state/country)
But extending out? No…. must be IE6? We’ll need to check that out. -
Okay. Thanks. The line you’re talking about is the US/Canada border, right where it should be more or less. The line I see lies right overtop the Google logo as well, and extends leftward; it’s just text, in white sans serif font.
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I’m not interested in videos and I will not be uploading any into my blogs. I’m interested in music without the visual tat.
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If you get a mapKit error with 0, it is because you put the entire address of your map in there. You just need the 5 or 6 diget number only to make it work. It parses out the address and replaces it with 0. Took me awhile to figure it out myself!
Trent
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ohhhh, i get it. Color me stupid. I just stuck it on the sidebar and didn’t edit any settings.
For those still confused, you need to set up an account with Platial (their link is in the widget settings), set up a map with them, and enter the 5-digit code they give you into the widget settings.
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Hi everyone. I’m Tracy from Platial. My email is (email visible only to moderators and staff) and I am happy to help anyone who is having particular trouble with the MapKit widget. (Judyb12 has it right.) I’m right now working on improving the flow for people starting out from the WordPress widget gallery.
After you drag the widget into your side bar, you have to configure it. Click on the configuration button in the right side of the widget box to open the box where the link to Platial is.
You have to register at Platial and enter your blog url, then we’ll give you the map ID, which you copy and paste into the configuration box of the widget.
You guys are the first of the first to be trying this out, so if you hit any glitches, email me and I’ll get them ironed out for you.
More Information:
You have to register at Platial for a couple different reasons. First, the things that are added to your MapKit via your blog all appear on Platial.com, all attributed to you. that means you can delete or edit the content as you need to. Also, you have moderatorship of your map, so you need to be able to log in to Platial in order to approve content and such if you want to.When you go to Platial to configure your MapKit you are actually fetching two api keys that make your widget function. One for the Platial api and one for the Google Maps api. These keys are domain specific, which is why you have to put the url of your blog into the configuration.
Platial has been around for about a year. We’re based in Portland, OR. We’re a small team (7 people) and we’re really excited about seeing what people are going to do with our maps on their blogs. If you get a MapKit set up, email me so I can link to your blog from the Platial blog.
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raincoaster– I don’t see the text seeping off the side either, but I bet it’s an IE6 thing. I’m logging it. If you have a screenshot, I would love to attach it to my bug report. ((email visible only to moderators and staff))
As for what you can do with MapKit
* You can use it to allow your readers to leave locations and notes, like a guest book
* If you have a blog about a particular subject you can map Places related to that subject for your readers either to use as a reference or as a reference to build with your readers (my knitting blog: http://www.psychoastronomy.org/pinsandneedles/)
* You can map your blog posts, if they are about places
* You can use the map to tell something interesting about yourself: all the places you’ve lived, where your ancestors come from, Places you hope to go some day…Here are some other sites that are using MapKit
http://onokinegrindz.typepad.com/
http://www.newenglandgrown.com/pages/gameexoticmeatsMAP.html
http://www.theendoftheuniverse.ca/node/352 -
Can’t get a screencap, sorry. My ancient PDF writer won’t do the actual screen layout, but adds weird formatting.
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Nice widget, but the text mentioned above is covering the map when using Opera. When using Firefox and the Pressrow theme the map apperas in a third column, which is rather strange since the theme only has two columns. In IE6 it looks good…. rather slow to download though… Anyone experiencing similar effects?
cheers
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Interesting, lunken…
The text is supposed to be covering a tiny part of the map. It’s the map attribution and is required to be on there. When you say ‘covering the map” do you mean more than just in the bottom?
I noticed that the map was over on the far side in ff on your blog (I linked to your blog from the platial blog yesterday–http://platial.typepad.com/news/2007/02/a_few_new_mapki.html).That is pretty odd. That’s something that WordPress might be able to fix. I
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The Mapkit slowed my blog down so much I had to take it out again; it slows it down on the main page, and particularly on the widgets page, which is never lightning-quick at the best of times. There are, if the computer is to be believed, 27 items within it that have to load. That just bogs the whole thing down, and that text is still obscuring the right-hand side of my blog.
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Just gave MapKit a whirl, and…
1.) It doesn’t show. And yes I registered and received the code.
2.) I placed it under my Flickr Photo widget and now it is screwed up. -
When I looked at the blog with Opera and Win Xp it showed quite ok… but in W2000 the text got big and covered the lower part of the map, maybe one third of it. Still quite annoying to have a new “third” column… :-/
Oh… well… bugs exist to be fixed… aren’t they? ;-)
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Lunken–the third column is so odd! One of our guys is going to look at it. I’m making a note of the Opera/Windows2000 issue.
Velvethammer–If you can tell me how the Flickr widget malfunctioned, that might be helpful. The map just not showing up at all is inexcusable. I hope that’s not happening to many people!
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Hi Iheartmaps
Well all that showed is the title “Flickr Photos” and a box that showed the text “more photos” which was a link that led to my blog. I have my Flickr photo working now though. but thanks! I may try to add the Platial map widget again, when I get up the nerve. lol
Please do not be to discouraged, it is a new product and I’m sure all will be worked out soon. :)
BTW I use Firefox 1.5, on Win XP Home. My blog theme is “Garland” -
Just an FYI…. with the Platial Mapkit widget, I can add people, but it won’t let me view the map… Ya’ll can try it… it didn’t work with I.E 7.0 and I’ll report my findings with firefox.
-Hardliner
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