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=== 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. [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 18:55, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
::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 [http://www.digihitch.com/world/Europe/Netherlands 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 [http://bugs.couchsurfing.com/view.php?id=341 a bug in the CS bug tracker] for this.
:::Glad to see your request. This is a feature that CS has been sorely missing! [[User:Salman|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? :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:23, 3 December 2006 (CET)
::::Nice work so far on liftershalte.info! Are you in contact with Markus at [http://www.hitchbase.com/ hitchbase.com] to share all submitted exit points from that website? [[:digi:|digihitch.com]] has also had the goal of listing all locations on the map. I began with [http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ Google Maps API] earlier this year and right now we use it to show truckstops in US States (see [[:digi:world/USA/Arizona|Arizona]], for example), hostels in cities (see [[:digi:world/Europe/Germany/Berlin/hostels|Berlin hostels]] page) general maps for cities that have mapped routes (such as the new [[:digi:world/Oceania/New-Zealand/Auckland|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. [[User:Salman|Salman]] 08:30, 4 December 2006 (CET)
:Looking forward to contributing more in the months ahead. Good job so far!
