Where are you from? (EBT user's map)

[Le Hibou]

Found this in the francophone forum:-

Voila queques chose qui j'espère vous plaira, c'est une carte du monde sur laquelle chaque forumeur peut s'enregistrer, pour ensuite apparaître dessus, si tout le monde participe, ça peut être assez sympa, inscrivez la ville dans laquelle vous résidez, et non celle où vous êtes né
n'hésitez pas à vous inscrire, ça prends 15 secondes maximum, c'est gratuit et il n'y a pas d'adresse email à laisser


Inscrivez-vous d'abord ICI

Puis consultez la carte ICI

Translation:- "Here's something that I hope you'll like, It's a map of the world, where every forum member can register, and then appear on it, if everybody takes part, it would by quite good, write the name of the town where you live, not where you were born
don't hesitate to register, it takes 15 seconds maximum, it's free and you don't have to leave your e-mail address

First register HERE

Then look at the map HERE" - end of translation

I'd also like to add, you don't need to use your real name, you should probably use your EBT forum name, and avatar if you wish. Currently, there are 47 people registered, mostly from France, 5 in Belgium, some in Switzerland - no Finns, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese etc, also no Brusselars or Flemings (apart from Flemish Brabant). Also one from Montréal, Canada. Let's have some more non-French-speakers!

[hafla]

And the first dutchman has entered the map.

Nice chart but i think Pays Bas needs to be devided in provences.

[Klazu]

If we like to show ourselves on a map, wouldn't it make much more sense to use FRAPPR.COM which has an ultimate map system (Google Maps). That map system over there looks quite poor and hard to use.

[arathorn]

...wouldn't it make much more sense to use FRAPPR.COM...?

In fact there is a map of us.

[hafla]

I must admit that this looks even better.

Joined the club

[Le Hibou]

And the first dutchman has entered the map.

Proficiat!

Nice chart but i think Pays Bas needs to be devided in provences.

Yeah, I think you're right there. I don't know why Belgium is divided into provinces, but Netherlands not. Perhaps because it's a french site? ("typical francophone arrogance" , I hear someone muttering. No, No, surely not!)

However, later today I'll enquire at the French forum, to see if they can change it.

If we like to show ourselves on a map, wouldn't it make much more sense to use FRAPPR.COM which has an ultimate map system (Google Maps). That map system over there looks quite poor and hard to use.

Well I suppose it's a matter of personal preference, but I was once on a Frapper map with about 20 other people, mostly in Europe, and I thought firstly, the map was too cluttered with the "pin" icons representing people's locations so making it difficult to pick out individuals, secondly, the user interface was not easy to use.

I prefer the map system "over there" because, to me, it is much easier to use than Frappr (perhaps because it has fewer features ). Don't forget, Frappr also includes forums, live chat, etc, things that we don't need because we also have them here.

That's not to say that it couldn't be improved: Perhaps when we have 3.000 registered users, we may have some influence over the map service provider, and convince them to include the Dutch provinces! I wonder also if other countries are similarly poorly treated. Probably. The map of France even goes down to Département level, even more detailed than provinces!

[eurojuanmi]

and Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino?

[Le Hibou]

and Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino?

Good point. But do we actually have any users living in those countries?

[eurojuanmi]

Andorra
Number of EBT users living in this country: 26 (2 active)

Liechtenstein
Number of EBT users living in this country: 5 (2 active)

Monaco
Number of EBT users living in this country: 7 (0 active)

San Marino
Number of EBT users living in this country: 5 (1 active)

Vatican City
Number of EBT users living in this country: 4 (0 active)

[Kleman]

Now i'm on this map

in Bordeaux

[croeso]

I'm the 4th Portuguese has entrered on the map.

[Angelino]

I am the number 5.

ranking at this time:

1.France 54
2.Belgium 10
3.Spain 5

I think isn't a real map of EBTusers

[diogocanilho]

I really don't know if this is the better toppic to make this observation...
As you certainly noticed, some EBT users made changes in the location of their accounts. e.g. (the ones that I remember) pepitopulpito, that now is in Sweden (and were in Slovenia), J.R.K., that was in Spain and more recently bhoeyb, is in Estonia nowadays.
My question is: How long an EBT user must stay in a "different" place to change his location in his EBT account...?

[Phaseolus]

I really don't know if this is the better toppic to make this observation...
As you certainly noticed, some EBT users made changes in the location of their accounts. e.g. (the ones that I remember) pepitopulpito, that now is in Sweden (and were in Slovenia), J.R.K., that was in Spain and more recently bhoeyb, is in Estonia nowadays.
My question is: How long an EBT user must stay in a "different" place to change his location in his EBT account...?

It is indeed sometimes frustrating to see that the move of some users do modify the local/national rankings.

I see two types of temporary changes :
1. The user is / has been on holiday somewhere and wants to register his bills without making mistakes in the country-flag
2. the user that is / has been on holiday and considers he is "part of the country"

I see no problem with n°1, because this attitude lowers the number of mistakes. On the other hand, I believe that the default country is your country of residence.

But, except for the weekly national ranking, I see no fundamental problem.

To be pragmatic, if people go on a holiday and register temporarily in another country, please check when the national ranking is being done for not disturbing it.

For example, if some of you come to France next summer, please feel free to join the French national flag, but please, change back to your home flag on SUNDAY, because the national ranking is done on that day and you will make the life of the orgainising team easier doing as such.

he, he !

Summertime, holiday time !

[eddydevries]

I'm the 4th Portuguese has entrered on the map.

And I'm the 4th .