Suggestion: World Map

[Gryphalcon]

I had a thought, (I did, I did!) that it would be good to have a reference map or two.
First, for the Known World. I was going to say that it would be easy to find a link to one, but had some trouble finding anything. From Google, I had a lot of out-of-date results. Two possibilities:
SCA Google Earth http://anachronista.blogspot.com/2007/0 ... earth.html
And this: http://misfit-robots.com/sca/map/index.html

(There was a depressing number of 404 messages.)

Anyway, secondly, it would be nice to see where the Bluefeather is distributed. There is no active presence in Australia, but that might be because we are unaware of each other. I emagine that there would be similar situations elsewhere. For now though, it would seem that the SCA is in need of an updated Atlas. (Oh, the irony!)

[Demon_Rider]

Hmmm. Interesting idea. I myself have seen maps like the one I believe your talking about, and I've always thought they were interesting. There's a lot of free sites out there where you can do this.

It may be a good idea to wait a bit though. There are a lot more that I'm sure will come to this site. Hell we don't even have half the people who camp at Clan Blue Feather at Pennsic on the site yet.

Joshua could answer better than I could, but I think we had somewhere between like 40 and 60 people in camp this past year.

[Gryphalcon]

Understandable, given the site has only been up, what, three months?
And there seems to be a chronic case of out-of-date web information in the SCA.

[WarrenSensei]

This might be helpful, though it's a bit beyond me (ok, I could learn it, but it would be from scratch and take forever).

[WarrenSensei]

Barring that, Google Maps has convieniently just opened up a new "My Maps" function that allows collaboration.
If you (one of the admins would probably be wise) made a map, titled it something like "Clan blue Feather", and then posted the link on here, we could all view it. Editing can be restricted by account/invite or open to all, so you could send invites to each member to edit the map so people can add not only their own location, but also those of important sites and events. Alternatively, locations could be posted in a forum here and the admin(s) with access to editing the map could add approved spots.

Being a Google Map, the map can be displayed embedded in this site somewhere as well (by and admim, since it's a html code to do that).

[Gabe / Genjiro]

[Gryphalcon]

Well, thank you and muchly!
I was going to say, since we have so few regestered members on the forum, maybe the idea should be put on the back-burner for a while. Membership is likely to pick up at the start of the year, when word starts getting around.

Thank you for the responses. *bows* (I really don't like those emoticons...)

[Demon_Rider]

Oh yeah it will pick up. There's still a lot of...colorful personalities that need to make there presence known.
*looks at Widder and Sev*

[Gabe / Genjiro]

Just to let you know, I did make a central clan Google account and I think as things pick up next spring and summer (I think a lot of people tend to associate SCA stuff with warm weather) I'll see about implementing some of their apps for Clan use.

[Demon_Rider]

Is there a link somewhere that I'm missing Gabbo?