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Nearly crashed by browser. Perhaps limit the initial number of map items to load?

Yes please. There are many clustering / level-of-detail solutions available for Google Maps:

Handling Large Amounts of Markers in Google Maps

http://www.svennerberg.com/2009/01/handling-large-amounts-of...

Yeah, seriously -- there are ways to tell gmaps to show a limited number of points based on zoom level.

Recommended.

I like the idea but it seems like it has not been worked on in over a year, and then another year before that. This could be a really useful tool for organizing meetups.

If someone out there associated with this project is listening: I should be able to move my location in the event I move or made an error entering it. I should also be able to update my HN name should something happen to it. When logged in, auto-zoom the map to my location.

HackrTrackr makes FF 3.0 as well 3.5 unbelievably slow. Will have a second look if this is fixed.

Multiple people in the same city seem to be overlaid on top of each other, so that you can only see one of them.

If you zoom their differing locations will become apparent.

no, they wont.

edit: for the downvoters - try it first, then downvote. If multiple people are in the same city/place -> only the last one added is shown, since others are probably overlapped with it.

It seems like the "location" field is just getting geocoded. So some people entered an actual address rather than just a city name. That said I bet there are a bunch of people stacked on "San Francisco, CA"

Copenhagen is the same. I see only one user, but I know that there are at least two. I'm the second.

There is very very slight overlapping if you zoom in ultra high, but casual browsers will not zoom in that far.

Holy shit, visiting that site is worse than loading a PDF if you're on an old machine.

This loaded fine for me in ff3.5 + ubuntu linux. Hopefully you get some more traffic and the blanks will fill in. Meetup.com returns no results for "ycombinator" so it looks like the Houston Ruby users will be my only monthly meetup obligation.

P.S. I'm only the second from Houston, TX. I feel like some rare, endangered flying frog... :)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090810/sc_afp/asiaenvironmentw...

I appreciate the verification mechanism - allows one to maintain security on both sides of the fence...

Why do I not show up on the map? Is there something a HN user need to do to show up? I looked around all of Los Angeles area, I don't show up.

Wow - there are only two Dallas-based folks - me and "sid12112". That is odddddddddddddd. Sure there are a few surrounding-city folks in the area but only two in Dallas.

So many letters. How about hkrtrkr?

Hello Koobe from Tampere =)

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