> I was going to post, trying to decide if my summer project this year should be an AGL game or a RinkMap. Then I realized that I do not have the skills to do a RinkMap, and I may not have the commitment to do an AGL game, so the post never happened. :-)
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> I really like the idea of a RinkMap, though, and if there is anything (relatively non-technical) I can do to help, please let me know.
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> Don "Pretty tech saavy for a monkey, but not so hot compared to trained humans" Monkey

Here's what I was thinking of: a series of on-line maps with little dots to represent all the Rinkers and their locations. The maps would be interactive, so that when you mouse over them, the person's on-line name (chat name, nickname, handle, whatever you want to call it) and location would pop up. If one clicked on someone's dot, it might pull up a profile on that person, with as much info as they wanted included in it.

There would be lots of little details to work out. I wouldn't want to put anyone on the map without their permission, of course. Some areas have higher concentrations of people than others, so we might have to do things like zoom-ins with those areas.

I can do the graphical work on something like this. One way someone else could help would be on the coding. I know very little HTML, and nothing about any variety of scripting, be it Java, CGI, or anything else.

Of course I could always just do the whole thing in Flash myself. If I had a copy of Flash, that is. At any rate, this is a project for the future, since right now I have neither the equipment nor the software necessary to do it.

Gri"But soon. Soon."shny