Good point. Maybe businesses are the only ones with exact addresses. Anyone else could put alternate contact info if they want. Maybe even just a city or region level location.
Weāve got that āWhere are you from?ā-thread, maybe it could work in a similar way - some people there just tell their countries, others the city or region. Maybe one could even merge these maps, or use two different layers (one for professionals, which might be open to public, and one for private persons, maybe only accessible via the forum or some other authentification?)?
To be honest, I have absolutely no idea of the infrastructure of those maps, so if that is completely impossible, itās just me being silly 
For partners we could sort this out another way. I was talking to thunderblaster about this at one point where basically partners would create accounts (somewhere) and then DT would āgrantā them partner statusā¦ but they would be able to update their own map location, contact info, etc. If it were based on this forum and badges letās say, then we could easily grant official partners a special badge that made them an installer, and another badge that updated that pin to be an installer and a modder that can do flex (for example)ā¦ or if not badges, we could leverage groupsā¦ I could make a group for installers and one for modders and if they are in modders they get a modder pinā¦ no idea if thatās viable, just thinking out loud hereā¦
Alsoā¦ something to noteā¦ we do have the ability to update discourse with plugins that could help export this data if the standard API doesnāt have a method for thisā¦ we also have a plugin writer that helped us with the VivoKey plugin, so itās something Iād put some $ toward getting that plugin made if necessary.
Other ideas for self-classification could be the About Me sectionā¦ adding standard html tag style markers is supported but become invisible when rendered;
So basically you could tag your about me section with various standardized tags that could be parsed by the mapā¦
againā¦ iām just tossing stupid shit out hereā¦ it may make no sense at all, just putting out ideas.
Yes I absolutely love the idea of layersā¦ being able to check tickboxes to show various types of pinsā¦ this is critical I think.
full screen with options
One major utility I want to be sure is there is the map itself to be full screen and able to be embedded in another website via simple iframe, like map.dangerousthings.com is. This might mean also being able to send initial layer / legend options via querystringā¦ so like if I embed
communitymap.dangerousthings.com/?layers=installers,modders
then the map ticks those two checkboxes only when it initially renders the mapā¦ make sense?
I guess my point here is, they wonāt. Maybe some at first, but then participation will fade out. Data will get outdated, and weāre right back to the situation we have with the current map. Specifically, every āpinā on it I tried was invalid. I had to get a recommendation off the board for an installer, who was actually on the map, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY.
A community map, updated and ran by the community. If you fade out, then your community status fades out too. An active member though, who inputs bad data, can have that brought to their attention to fix. Because theyāre here, theyāre active, theyāre community. Iām really looking for a self healing facet to the map so it doesnāt ājunk upā over time.
@Ottomagne, If youāve never seen Parks and Rec, then go watch that first, but I got this line from that show. āA camel is just a horse designed by a committee.ā
Thereās a ton of ideas and input here, but first and foremost, youāve got to make a product that youāre proud of. You canāt put it all in, and even if itās not what I want, itāll be better if you make decisions in the interest of a coherent whole. I suggest you follow the āenlightened dictatorshipā model. Listen, learn, take advantage of anything you can here, but in the end, make it yours, make it something you can be proud of and itāll be awesome.
And in case you canāt tell, weāre all really pulling for you, and thanks for taking this one on!
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That scope creep tho.
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Oh yeah, also, can you have it solve world hunger and shine my shoes, while youāre at it. Iām gonna need that deliverable in three days. Thaaannnkkkkssss.
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trueā¦ currently itās up to us to reach out to our partners to ensure the pins are updatedā¦ and well, thatās not happening now.
Yes I agreeā¦ this has the best possible chance at being accurate at any given time.
Why not have this partly community driven?
Say I find a local installer who is fine being listed as a person who will do these, but doesnāt really want to deal with managing another account that may not give them much business.
So I ask them if I can add them, and if they donāt care, I can put their pin and info in. It would say,
"Stab and jab company
Phone:999-999-9999
Address:456 main st
Anywhere, earth
Last used by @Backpackingvet on july 3, 2020"
If the map has layers, this could be flipped on and off easy. If after a year they dissappear, then it would be up to the place of business to try and get back on, unless I wanted to re do them.
People who want to be official partners, I feel, should reach out to you.
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Thatās pretty much the way I do it (spreading the word because Iām very happy and my bodmod-artist is okay with it), but there may be a problem with artists in some countries, where they have to stay āunder the radarā. The map is public, and so it might get difficult for them if happy customers tell more than they shouldā¦
Still, fine for me here, but if itās done that way we must all hope that people only put studios and artists up here who are really okay with that. Dunno if thatās a problem at all, just something to consider.
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I tend to keep an eye out for posts in my area, and go from there. Iāve given my installerās contact info to a few people now (with his permission) but Iām not sure heād be cool with just anyone seeing it.
Sounds like a
" I know a guy " map layer option !!!
This could be a simple as a dot/ icon on a city, when you select that dot in that city, it Shows forum members details to DM for āhook upā details
That way, the forum member keeps it on the down-low and they ultimately choose whether to share or not.
(the forum member may have multiple āI know a guysā in multiple cities, so better with the generic city dot icon, than directly associated with the forum member)
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Now thatās using the olā Pilgrimaster noggin!
You could keep a pin either open, anyone can read it, or closed, letās you contact the poster quietly.
I LIKE it.
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@amal how are the accounts through this Discourse implementation being authenticated? Are you using OpenID Connect by chance? Or does Discourse have its own auth that you then put the OpenID plugin into to support Vivokey?
We do have our own oidc plugin!
Research continuing onā¦
Looks like Discourse does have a built in functionality for acting as an SSO provider. Iāll need to work with you @amal to integrate any config changes that need to happen on your side to allow your discourse server instance to actually auth users.
As Iāve continuing looking into different methodologies for continuing with this project, I learned that Amazon actually has a system built in for user auth/management, so that will be the point of connection between Discourse and the web app - the AWS cloud will still have to manage users in some manner, but their Discourse session/account will auto-link to be injected into that user pool/identity pool, so people shouldnāt have to make any new accounts or re-login or anything like that. Then the AWS user management system will provision authorities to make changes/edits, and the like.
On a side note, AWS has out-of-the-box support for OpenId Connect auths as well, so at some point, Iād like to try and set up a project integrating the Vivokey API directly into AWS, just to figure it out for myself and everyone else. Since Discourse will be the SSO provider for the map project (and you have the Vivokey plugin already running and connected to Discourse), that point is moot for this specific project, but I think itās worth figuring out for future API users.
More to come laterā¦
Edit: Iām using this thread to catalogue research pertaining to the continued development of the app here, but development isnāt moving forward THAT quickly. Iām wanting to get things stable and set up on my machine locally before I ask anyone to do anything that might break down or cause issues; Iāll be setting up a Discourse instance locally to make sure I can get the SSO provision working locally before Iāll ask to change anything on the DT setup.
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no prob
if you need DT to set up an AWS account to develop and host this project, weād be happy to do that.
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Hmm can I get a TLDR on how to add someone to whichever map were using? Haha. The guy who does mine asked me to get home added lol heās not super computer savvy.
DM me the details
Done!
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If youāre planning on adding him to the partners XML, let me know when you update it and Iāll update the AWS database with a fresh pull 
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