Please also have a look at this thread -
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=26571.msg171001#newGiven some PHP programming ability and the time to do it, I can't see why a MOD for Coppermine (shall we call it CoppermineR?) can't provide self contained solutions for photo sharing, photo-guest-books, community sites and a whole lot more. TranznDance has a brilliant MOD that can form the basis of the project, which needs opening out to;
1) allow other site users to post their pics on the same map
2) Get directions to/from locations "pinned" on the map
3) Get small "Bio's" on the visitors to the map.
4) Plenty of other things that I've not even thought of yet.
I can see this as being ideal for church & social groups, teams, clubs and any other sort of organisation which has an interest in bringing together the visitors to their site.
This could be the next generation of photo / video guest book, who knows.
As I may have explained on the other thread, I've seen Mappr and Flickr, and it seems that these are taking the USA by storm (no worldwide facility on Mappr yet), however to take part, photos etc all have to go "off site" into the Flickr database.
What we could do here is to have a similar but site-specific facility, available across the world (as per Google Maps) in a style that could be customisable to the users own desires.
Now while I can do Ideas, and I can do graphics and HTML, I can't do PHP or JavaScript, so my contribution may be limited. However if there are others who can do PHP etc and like the idea, I'd be grateful to hear, so that we can team up to create something.
Thanks in advance for any responses which may be forthcoming.
Martin