User talk:Salman

Welcome and Ideas

Hi Salman! Welcome to this wiki and thanks for adding and correcting some stuff! I'll probably hitchhiking a bit in North America some time soon. Guaka 18:55, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey! Great! I didn't know you were "webmaster and co-editor" of digihitch! It would be great to find ways to cooperate a bit more. I'll add an easy way for linking to Digihitch. Also, we could do something like what I'm doing on CouchSurfing. Check this. I'm also trying to create an auto-login for CS users, so that they can edit with their CS user name. And then there's the Google Maps thing MrTweek is working on. It would be great if we can integrate all these things and ideas :)

You can now use links like [[digi:featured_salman.html]] to create a nice link to Digihitch in the left pane. Or links like [[:digi:usa-map.html]] to create links in the text, e.g. USA map at Digihitch. Guaka 00:36, 2 December 2006 (CET)

Thanks for the welcome and glad to know Hitchwiki has a strong support team to give it a good start! I hope we can meet when you are in the USA, Guaka. I am in Phoenix, Arizona. Let me know if you come through... nice weather until May.

It would be great to meet you, but I'm in New Zealand, and generally heading North West until I reach Europe. Maybe I'll be in the US for next Burning Man :)

Couchsurfing Geocoding

As coder of the digihitch engine, I would be glad to create more ways to promote Hitchwiki from our pages. As we do for Hospitality Club, we can probably link to each hitchwiki page within our digihitch World pages-- take the Netherlands page as an example. HC is promoted as an icon near the top left of the page and goes directly to the HC Netherlands travel page. I also wanted to integrate CouchSurfing with digihitch and mentioned this to Casey, but as of yet CS does not allow direct linking to countries. With your wiki this may now be possible!

Cool. I just created a bug in the CS bug tracker for this.

Glad to see your request. This is a feature that CS has been sorely missing! Salman 08:30, 4 December 2006 (CET)

Hitchhiking points on the map

I have experience integrating Google Maps into the site with php, so let me know if you need any tips. I use php/mysql to accomplish this, initializing the maps within the head code. Digihitch World was built from the ground up, so I know the code intimately.

Check http://www.liftershalte.info done by MrTweek. Maybe you can avoid doing work twice? :)

A little description is available at Liftershalte.info. It is also built with PHP and MySQL. For what are you using google maps? anything that we could link/combine/merge? :) --MrTweek 16:23, 3 December 2006 (CET)

Nice work so far on liftershalte.info! Are you in contact with Markus at hitchbase.com to share all submitted exit points from that website? digihitch.com has also had the goal of listing all locations on the map. I began with Google Maps API earlier this year and right now we use it to show truckstops in US States (see Arizona, for example), hostels in cities (see Berlin hostels page) general maps for cities that have mapped routes (such as the new New Zealand maps). If we can get all of us hitchhiking webmasters working together, maybe we can release an xml version of our work to other websites that has multi-language, map-based hitchhiking exit points that can be plugged into others' maps. Just a thought that we can discuss on a different page at another time. I will follow your development in the meantime. Salman 08:30, 4 December 2006 (CET)

Looking forward to contributing more in the months ahead. Good job so far!

Salman 01:54, 2 December 2006 (CET)

I'm excited about that! Guaka 23:19, 2 December 2006 (CET)