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Summary | Allows you to associate geocoded locations with Topics and show them on a beautiful map. Also allows your users to record their location and collectively display them on a central users map on your site. |
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Repository Link | GitHub - merefield/discourse-locations: Tools for handling locations in Discourse · GitHub |
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Install Guide | How to install plugins in Discourse |
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Sponsorship | Please consider becoming an ongoing sponsor of my open source work at a level that suits your or your organisation’s resources and needs to ensure this plugin gets the maintenance it deserves and continues to work for your site in the future. |
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Documentation
View the README on the repo
Support
I do not provide any guaranteed support for free. I can provide support to businesses or institutions who sign up to one of my GOLD or PLATINUM monthly Sponsorship tiers.
There is a one-off bug hunt option.
There is an EARLY ACCESS version of Locations exposed exclusively to backers beyond a certain tier.
This version has the following features which the public version of Locations currently lacks:
| Title | Description |
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| Users-map globe | Adds an interactive 3D globe view for the Users Map, with avatars placed by location, drag/touch rotation, zoom, reset, search focus, user-card clicks, and always-on bump mapping. |
| Globe screen saver | Optional experimental idle screen saver showing a rotating 3D globe with user avatars below the header. |
| Enhanced users-map filters | Adds controls for result limit, search type, search term, and group filtering on the Users Map. |
| Nearby topic filter | Adds a nearby topic-list filter based on distance from the current user’s location. |
| IP-based user location lookup | Automatically estimates and stores user locations from IP data, with configurable trigger mode, granularity, cooldown, GeoNames resolution, skip-if-existing behavior, and debug logging. |
If you would like these extra features, consider sponsoring me and making sure you go for a monthly tier which includes Early Access. Sponsoring me at the right tier will give you access to the Early Access version within 24 hours.