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[Dan]

Google Maps kludge with [gmap] tags.

(1) Go to Google Maps, and center the map on the location you want to embed.

(2) Click on the Google Maps menu (three bars).

(3) Click on "Share or embed maps" from the dropdown menu.

(4) Click on "Embed map".

(5) Copy the long code between https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb= and ". For the map above, it looks like !1m18!1m12!1m3!1d93532.55571272006!2d-78.93448215309492!3d42.89621760304876!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x89d3126152dfe5a1%3A0x982304a5181f8171!2sBuffalo%2C%20NY!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1607881637462!5m2!1sen!2sus ,

(6) Paste the code between the [gmap] and [/gmap] tags.

If you want to embed a Google Streetview location, do the same thing.

Urbanism!

I wish there was an easier way to do this, but Google changed their Maps API a few years ago, in a way that made easy embedding on a message board page difficult. For now, the old [map] tag is broken, but I'll fix it when an easier way to embed maps with BBcode comes along.

 

[Dan]

I've been tweaking the .htaccess file to keep bad bots and scrapers down to a minimum. If you have problems seeing the site, please let us know. It's helpful if you post the user agent of the browser where you're having problems. Visit What Is My User Agent?, copy, and paste.

 

[WSU MUP Student]

I cannot access the site through Chrome (I can through FireFox though). I believe this is my "user agent" info:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.198 Safari/537.36

(I don't know what any of that means)

 

[Dan]

I'm fixing it. Thank you!

 

[WSU MUP Student]

I'm fixing it. Thank you!

Your magic worked!

 

[Dan]

Stupid me. I tried to block a bot called "Rome", but by doing so, it also blocked Google Chrome.

You have my permission to post pad today.

 

[Dan]

Moving Cyburbia to a new server (with the same host) this weekend, as a part of upgrading the operating system. There may be some interruptions, but hopefully they'll be minimal.

 

[Shellac And Vinyl VelocitY]

Where's the blog?
Nobody was using it, so it went bye bye. I might add a blogging platform in the future, if traffic picks up.

There are two** possible Cyburbians who may want to start a blog here, (in addition to having a blog in another location?). There is also one person who would definitely like to start a blog here.

I don't want to put the two possible people on the spot; posting two links here:

RTDNTOTO 🐻 - Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread of Their Own 16 (2021)

Originally posted by Bear Up North My fellow Cyburbians: As we welcome in a new year, we sadly say "goodbye" to an old friend and with the grin that made slackers famous, we welcome a new friend. The RANDOM THOUGHTS THREAD has been part of our lives for many a post. The thread has given us...

www.cyburbia.org

and

Suggestions on How I Could Make my Blog Better

I love writing and taking photographs. Both activities relax me and give me joy. Because of this, I decided to fuse these two hobbies in another activity --- blogging. For a while, my blog enjoyed a high number of readership. Unfortunately, it has been declining in the past couple of months...

www.cyburbia.org

The one person who would definitely like to start a blog on Cyburbia is me. Or should I say, Re-start? I kept a small blog here in the late 2000's.


**Who knows, there may be other potential bloggers that I don't know about. I posted the two I saw.