This page serves as the ultimative repository for all questions concerning the Yay Hooray! World Map™ - a comprehensive map service exclusively developed for the Yay Hooray! community.
Latitude and longitude are angles that uniquely define points on a sphere. Together, the angles comprise a coordinate scheme that can locate or identify geographic positions on the surfaces of planets such as the Earth.
Add yourself by choosing a nickname and adding the latitude and longitude values of your location. Your city and country are not required. To link your position on the world map to your Yay Hooray! profile, you'll need to provide the same nickname you use on Yay Hooray!. As already explained on the map itself, you can use Maporama to gather your current lat/long values. Just keep in mind to use the decimal values (e.g. 40.714 / -74.007 for New York). Once you've submitted your details, you'll appear on the map instantly.
topEditing your position is as easy as adding yourself to the map. Once you're participating, the edit form is displayed instead of the add form. Simply change your lat/long and hit update. A special case is when your cookie expired: That happens 1 year after you first joined the world map, and is extented each time you edit your position. If that's the case, you just add yourself again and your old details are overwritten, and your cookie renewed.
Editing your name isn't possible - if however you'd like to change it, just delete your cookie and add yourself again with a new name. Please inform me of this change, otherwise we have inactive users on the map: contact me by sending a message here.
topYou either received a wrong response from Maporama when fetching your lat/long coordinates, or, most typically, you forgot the minus in front of either lat/long value. Remember how positioning on Mother Earth works: On One hand there's the Greenwich meridian running from the northpole to the southpole through Greenwich (United Kingdom). Everything further West (e.g. North- and South America) has negative latitude, on the other hand there is the equator, the imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres. Everything on the southern hemisphere has negative longitude.
topWell, this is a long story. We (some other Yay Hooray! members and I) tried to get it working with Flash. Mostly to get it zoom-enabled. But the huge problem there is, you need quite a detailed map to make zooming-in possible. I made such a map and then recognized it had more than 500 KB, which was crashing Flash itself. We then stopped working on it.
Just recently I discovered somebody who got rid of that problem by loading detailed maps just when they're needed. It's a nice example of how-to. But I doubt I could easily implement that solution. Also I like our colored maps more than these gray.
topShut the fuck up!
topUse a standards-compliant browser - get the newest version of Firefox, Internet Explorer or Opera!
topRSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a Web content syndication format. RSS is a dialect of XML.
Using Yay Hooray! World Map's RSS feeds you can subscribe to several channels:
There are many free newsreaders which you can use - the most popular being Feeddemon (Windows) and NetNewsWire (Mac OS X).
topNo, I'm not owned by Google. At least not yet.
But anyway, feel free to use the great improvement of KML implementation. The need for more zoom is now passé, you got Google Earth which is the greatest in zoom. Download the KML of any of your friends (as long they switched it on in their profile) and stay updated on their position.
topIt's a community, maybe the best you've ever seen. Have a look!
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