Blender World Wide User Map
Where are the Blenderheads at? Check the Blender World Wide User Map!
The Worldwide Blender Users Map is available for population. The hope is that it will evolve into local user groups. There are three ways to enter your details (name_tag, town, country)
- You can enter your location and name tag here in this post, and i’ll pop you up on the map.
- or you can head over to Blender artists thread at this Blender Artists thread
- or you can go directly to the map and enter your details as per the instructions below.
The instructions are
1) log in to gmail / google account / etc
2) view the map http://goo.gl/maps/IRTi
3) a button will appear in the top right of the left info panel, above the list of names, labelled Edit.
4) after clicking that, three extra icons appear at the top left of the map window, click the blue place-mark tab – place it – enter details – click ok.
There is great response so far and would love to get all possible users involved in this map.
Hope to see you there.
Great idea! :D
The map has already grown quiet a bit :)
Nice :)
Checked!
Tossed my name in the list! Unsurprisingly there is no one from my city on the list – closest people are at least an hour off. Ah well!
Name: RedBaron85 (Francesco Milanese)
Location: Catania, Italy
Description: Blender Foundation Certified Trainer, Blender 3D user since 2007, http://www.redbaron85.com
Great idea!! ;-)
Is this some kind of trick? I click on the link and it takes me to a map titled “3DS MAX users”?!! o.O
Some one probably changed it as a prank.
Oooooh France, where are thou ? :'( ()
Someone changed the name again. I think this time they just didn’t know what they were doing.
I’m logged in to my gmail account, but I can’t find any button labelled Edit!
Name: climbingair (Vance Bowman Jr)
Location: Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Using Blender since 2009
@thomislav86 I had to change the url to maps.google.com (my main google maps domain) to make it work
Dude someone has their tag in Antarctica!
is there a noob filter?
:o)
Someone deleted mine WTF!!!!
Name: Andy Paul
Location: Haarlem, The Netherlands
Blender User since 2011 ;-)
Name: mutze
Town: Gothenburg
Country: Sweden
ByronK, Byron R. Kindig, Kingsport, TN
Using Blender since 2002
Thanks
Name: Shonny3D
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Name: Melvin Maynard
Town/village: West Farm
Country: St Kitts
Blender user since 2008-ish
Ok I’m new with the google maps. One thing i noticed that sucks is that it only shows the tags for one page. Is there any way to have it show all the tags in a given area instead of just one page worth?
Name: Steven Shearing
Location:hewett road,dagenham
Great idea :D
Owen Lazare AKA Agata soda
Kahanawake, Quebec, Canada
Lol now ppl start deleting each other. Vandalism is surely a problem when everybody can edit s.th.
Yateley
Hampshire
UK
Great idea!
Name: David Haymond
Location: Columbia Falls, Montana, United States
Using Blender since 2006
Im brazilian
Samuel Telles
Brail
Town Porto Alegre
UserName: Bohling
Location: Kansas City, MO, USA
Will Hanson
Lock Haven, PA USA
user since 2001
name: Adam k
location: Toledo, OH USA
I’ will be the third person in my state.
Andrew Enyart
Atlanta, GA USA
user since 1.8
Couldn’t hurt to join in… Seems like a good thing…
Tag:- Robco.
City:- Raymond Terrace, NSW. (near Newcastle)
Country:- Australia.
Alright. Whoever decided it’s funny to vandalize this has to answer to us Blenderers. :p
Neat idea!
Name: macromanjr (Brian Lockett)
Location: Warminster, PA, USA
Blender user since 2.46
name: Rafael Conceição
Location: Coimbra, Portugal
name: Jason
location: San Jose, CA
user sense 2009
I’m not seeing an edit button :(
location Cowarts Alabama USA
user since 2.43
This is kinda fun!
name: Raul Gonzalez Luy
Location: Viña del Mar, Chile
Name: Niko40
Location: Voltti, Kauhava, Finland
Actively been using Blender for about 5 years now. :D
Name: Liquid Orange
Location: Iserlohn / Germany
User since 2009
The Blender 3D world user map is now by request only.
This means a lot of admin work on my part and I need to go into deep geography mode as the pins have been moved and put in oceans etc. Please be patient. This is due to constant map vandalism.
I’ll keep updating.
anyone who has only provided name, i am unable to replace your pin, so please make sure to provide location details along with your name. a link to a website is not going to work,
Thank and look forward to receiving lots of requests.
Need NAME, TOWN/CITY, Country.
Name: David Wehr
Location: Oskalooosa, IA, United States
Sadly, there is nobody in my entire state!
Name: Terrachild
Location: Hollywood, CA USA
Name: J. Dolan
Location: Bothell, WA USA
Name: Matt VG
Location: Maryville, TN USA
@ pixelznbits
and
@ paddy_admin,
This answer seems to apply to both concerns — I think an oversight in the way GoogleMaps was built is behind the problems we’ve seen here:
1) I noticed that when logged onto Googlemaps, it is possible to accidentally move the location of placemarks just by normal mousedragging the map around in a densely populated region. This happens even without first selecting the “EDIT” button. If the mouse gets too close to a marker, the marker gets dragged instead of the map, and with so many markers on the map at once, the screen updating gets very laggy, which only contributes to making these kinds of errors. The only way the markers are safe is when one is not logged onto Googlemaps with an account… as I noticed, the EDIT button only prohibits changing the typed content when not selected, but does nothing to prohibit the moving of the markers.
2) As for not all the markers showing up at once, this is also something that goes away when the user logs out of their GoogleMaps account sign-in. When logged onto ones Googlemaps account, markers become “filtered” so that only those listed on the current page of the results screen show up on the map. After logging out from your Googlemaps account, the filtering is removed, and all of the markers again become visible regardless of whether or not the entry is visible on the currently displayed results page.
The crux of the problem appears to be some poorly thought-out interface rules on the part of the GoogleMaps team. While I wouldn’t put it past some to do intentional vandalism, my gut instinct is that most of it has been unintentional, given how clunky the process can be when scaled up to hundreds of placetags.
Making any sense at all?
Im here >) 33.118820, -64.330997
Nickname: EaglesNestOne
Location: Logan City, QLD, Australia.
It’s nice to see there are so many blenderheads out there! Props to the OP over at Blender Artists.
Much respect to p@ddy_anim. :)
I noticed this map pretty early and thought it was a really good idea. :D
It still is!!
There has been some map vandalism. Most of it is probably unintentional due the unsurprising ease of editing pins and the confusing interface (it took me a few attempts to get my own pin right, check Chesterfield in the middle of the UK). I guess it takes a community the size of blenderartists.org to really flush the bugs out of an application like this, and I seriously wonder whether it’s been put under this much stress before.
Because of the vandalism (intentional or unintentional is not relevant) it was a good decision imo to restrict editing access to the map. I’ve already found an active Blender user within 20 miles of me from this map and I’m sure that with time, this could really be a good networking tool.
Submissions to the map are still possible via the blenderartists link in the main text of the article. I’ve offered my time as an additional map moderator and suggested a trackable (consequences!!) wiki of listed members if necessary.
I seriously hope that the exponential growth of this map continues. I’m an amateur with limited time, but if many people each give a small amount of their time then great things can happen… This is the spirit of open source. :)
All the best to all Blender users out there.
FW
Im in Deltona, Fl, United States. I luv Blender 2.5
Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada
Name: MicWit (Michael Witten)
Location: Goonellabah, NSW, Australia
Blender user since about 2003
Name: Xero
Location: St. George’s, Grenada
P.S. It’s in the Caribbean! lol
name: congcong009 (Ethan Luo)
Location: Pukou, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
BlenderCN yeah!
Name: ghuck
Location: Happy Valley, Or. USA (Near Portland Or)
>>>>>>for edit button, make zoom<<<<<<
I’m surprised:
The map is almost empty for India and China.
China could be understandable because of of a missing translation, but India?
Name: Daltom
Location: 4.438987,-75.187652
Info: Graphic Designer
Name: Sastrei
Location: 29.515046, -98.416343
Name: LeoS
Location: Peine, Germany
Name: Hubberthus (Norbert Fekete)
Location: 47.578354, 19.009510
Hi again… yesterday my name was in the map, but someone should have deleted it… so here I am, again:
Name: RedBaron85 (Francesco Milanese)
Location: Catania, Italy
Description: Blender Foundation Certified Trainer, Blender 3D user since 2007, http://www.redbaron85.com
Great idea, too bad there are so many “vandals” around… ;-)
Thank you, bye!
my location:
+3° 2′ 59.32″, +101° 35′ 13.23″ (3.049810, 101.587009)
Hey, great idea! I want to be there too =)
Name: Aleksi Tuomela
Location: Oulu (Tyrnävä, Murto), Finland
Name: Jacob James Rodriguez
Location: Fresno California USA
That is a good idea.
Name: Saminah
Location: Köniz (near Bern), Switzerland
Name: Regele IONESCU
Location: 44.423573, 26.027885
Description: Blender Pro user.
Nice idea!
Name: Wolfram
Location:Köln(Cologne)
Description:Blender User since 1999
Name: Pistol Ioan Alexandru
Location: 43.806568, 28.573186
Location: Romania
Great idea!
Great idea. This is me:
Name: Jeroen Mank
(JeroenM, formarly known as hijothema @elysiun)
Location: Nijmegen Centrum, the Netherlands
Description: Eternal Newbie
Name; Adam
Location: north epping, sydney, australia (-33.762634,151.092602)
Description: Blender hobby user, since 2003
name – Ben Evans
Location – ipswich qld australia
Name: Ian McGlasham
Location: Stoke Newington, London, England
Description: Head of Motion Graphics, Highflyer Productions
I am User Blender for about a year, would like to get this map for so maybe I can relate to other User around here, my email is [email protected] – Taboao da Serra – SP – Brazil
In time, THANK YOU!
Nice idea. Looks like I will be the first (and only?) in Botswana. Put me down in Gaborone, please.
Name: Vela3 (Bram de Vries)
Location: Maastricht Center
Description: Blender for the real world
Please add me to the map….
Name:gravesr
Location:Elk Township, NJ, USA
Description:Blender Hobby user since 2010
Name: Mathias Jensen
Location: Sjælland, Denmark (coordinates: 55.437487,11.562767)
Name:Marijn de Graaf
Location:Bladel, The Netherlands
Name:Santa
Location:North Pole
make sure this article gets changed if its by reques only now. It’s very confusing right now.
Name: Egils Arajs
Location: Jekabpils, Latvia
Thanks :)
DskRbt
northland shopping centre (sorry thats the closest i am going to give)
heidelberg west 3084
melbourne australia
Cheers DskRbt
Name: Sylvain Lamoureux
Country: Canada
City: Quebec City
Occupation: 3D teacher using Blender
why I’m still not on the map? Is this some issue for China’s Google map I cannot find the edit button?
Location again:
name: congcong009 (Ethan Luo)
Location: Pukou, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
BlenderCN yeah!
Great idea, and thanks for the effort for add one by one in order to prevent the ‘vandalism’ ;)
Name: Víctor Hernández (victorhrz)
City/Location: Valencia, Spain (Av de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
46022 Valencia)
Cheers! :)
Add me pls
Hans Erickson
Springfield, Mo USA 65803
http://blenderartists.org/forum/member.php?u=74541
http://www.cgboomer.com
[email protected]
Name: Jan Feldmann
Location: Darmstadt; Germany
Name: Alberto Cortés
City: Almería
Country: Spain
Description: Blender 2.5 user and teacher since 2010
Name: Hayley Campbell
Location: Durban, South Africa
Description: Blender 2.5 user since 2009
Name: Mattila
Location: Päiväkumpu, Vantaa, Finland
Description: http://www.shapeways.com/shops/eeppium
Name: Loop Duplicate
Location: Santa Rosa, California
Description: http://burningtoken.com
City: Lagos,
Country: Nigeria
cheers
Name: PixelMove (Luca Civiero)
Location: Castelfranco Veneto, Italy
Description: Blender 3D user since 2009, Character Animation, http://www.pixelmove.it
Great Job!!
Name: Maddes
rösselsbrünnlestraße 5, Rheinstetten, Germany
Name: Dhony Juliardy
Location: -6.41943,106.771333
Cool!
Please add me in the map! My information is:
name: Jose Roberto Navas
Location: San Salvador, El Salvador
Using Blender since 2011
Thanks!
great idea!!
I would love to be added to the map.
Chris Schultz
Logan, Utah, USA
Terra, Utah, USA
This is a great idea! It’s pretty cool to see the random areas that people are taking advantage of the great open-source software.
Lswan
Aitkin, Minnesota, USA
Garrett
Meridian, Idaho, USA
Tudor117
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
3dman
Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Name: Dennis Roffe
Locations: Fort Mill, South Carolina USA
Name: Guaraci Lage
Location: Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil
-8.720169, -63.901770
-8° 43′ 12.61″, -63° 54′ 6.37″
Description: Artista Gráfico 3d, freelancer e estudante de arte. http://twitter.com/guaraci_art3D
Location: cookeville, TN, 38506
Blender user since 2007
p33p
Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America
Luisk
Panamá, Ciudad de Panamá
Riakiotakis Antonis
Iraklion, Greece
Ze Chordlord
Name: Matt Harvs
Location:-33.4263, -151.3419 (Central Coast, NSW, Australia)
Yay I’m on it. And he put me right in the centre of the Kronenburger Park. For the dutch among us: Frank Boeijen any one? I actually live a two minutes walk from the park so it’s close enough :-)
Name: Nils Austa
Map link: http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=201562725129812092684.00049cc796fb84c0c42ca&ll=58.352868,26.685542&spn=0.001199,0.004128&t=h&z=19
Name : Menu Hubert
Location : Douala, Littoral, Cameroon.
Location : Slavonski Brod, Croatia
“Name”: Tuuba
City: Turku
Country: Finland
Name: Roger Bootsma
City: Cabella Ligure, AL
Country: Italy
Name; VJ VeCtoR
City: Haarlem
Country: The Netherlands
Please put me at this location–
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=4fae4f91ff6e72b0dfd315e5e418426&prevstart=0
here is where I live, Put me at the location:
http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=201562725129812092684.00049cc796fb84c0c42ca&ll=42.682435,38.144531&spn=68.991136,173.144531&z=3
name: pamtango
city: Oakland, California
country: USA
description: user since 10-Aug-02
Gaurav
Dehradun, India
I cannot see the edit button!
Added
Odessa, Ukraine, user since May 2010
djallal namri
algiers algeria
Zain and Nils Austa – I can’t add you. i don’t know where you are. Simple – name, town, coutry. Prividing me with a link to a modified Blender map persents with the hundreds of place maps – which one are yours? Name, town, country. that’s all i need. thanks
Name: skybox2k-gen
Location: Ang Mo Kio, Singapore
yamyam
Osaka, Japan
PerfectionCat
Hyougo,Japan
Hello, tank you for putting me on the map, but my position is wrong there, can you fix by this position please:
-8° 43? 12.61?, -63° 54? 6.37?
These were my settings:
“Name: Guaraci Lage
Location: Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil
-8° 43? 12.61?, -63° 54? 6.37?
Description: Artista Gráfico 3d, freelancer e estudante de arte. http://twitter.com/guaraci_art3D”
Thanks
Name: Alex Mertz
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.
Thanks!!
(I tried to edit my previous post but not working)
Just clarifying:
The position what I want is not exactly my home cause I don’t want my exact door on the map, and I don’t want another place pointed like being mine.
My home is near the airport and no one lives there, that is why I choose the landing runway of my town. It is not me joking with the Blender 3d World map, the position is merely my personal choice.
The position is -8.720169, -63.901770
My English is really bad, I hope to be understandable.
Thank you again.
Frederiksberg, Denmark
name:pados
yokohama, Japan
Pocatello ID, 83202
USA
It’s a good Idea.thank you.
name:stack
Location:hyougo,Japan
35.066057, 134.775066
I use blender in March 2008.
nice :D imma be on that map too :)
Name:
kingcreole (g.g.)
Location:
Rheine,
Germany
Name: Jaxan
Location: Madrid, Spain
OK – this has really taken off. Can all future requests be fed through the blenderartist.org thread at this link
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=209333&page=15
this allows for the capability of a true network-able map, where if you want to contact someone, you will be able to do so through private messaging at blender artists.
thanks and looking forward to lots more blenderers populating the map
really great idea!
I’m using blender since 2006.
I’m doing 3D-Visualizations and technical animations for machines with Blender. (Full-Time)
would you please add me to the map?
name:
Christian Hartung
location:
Zürich, Switzerland
Name: BlenderFR34K
Location: Melrose Ct. Murray KY 42071
Country: USA
Name:haris
Location:Canada,Mississauga
For some reason I don’t get an edit button on the map either…
Name: Brennan
Location: Calgary, Canada
Name: Lee Salvemini
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Name: Giampiero Moioli
Location: via Rovetta 4, Monza
via Brera 28, Milano
ITALY
name:YAOS location:matsue.shimane.japan
Name: Stareagle Location: Beaufort, USA
This kind of map could be extended to free and open source graphics software in general, not just Blender. What do you think ?
Name : Jean Michel Zié
Place : Dakar, Senegal