How does it work, cause I see no one, not even myself.
Ahh sharp eyes. There is a bug in it and it will not display the pins yes but you can capture your pin in your Profile. Will announce formally as soon as I can get this to work.
Got my pin set. Will wait for your annoucement.
Hennis
Just to remind you all...post your location in the V-GuitarForums Member Map......please THX
Do you remember...?
Please post all your locations... :-*
We are already 59 (map)members
THANK YOU!!!
By the way...we are already 64...thx
(where are all the others?) ;)
We are growing...we are already 72!
THANK YOU! :-*
Yes Thank You!...Number 78...Who's gonna be NO.100?
Is there a way to see how many members per country we have ? I don't see anything in the 'stats' page on this
Thanks
Headless
That is highly classified information and top secret :-X. The Admins could tell you, but then........... 8)
On a more serious note... I do wish members would fill out their profile with at least the basics. AGE-GENDER-GENERAL LOCATION. Does it really matter? I suppose not but, there are times when, for instance, answering questions, it might help to know when giving answers or making suggestions. Who knows, you may find a member who is actually just across town and decide to hook up to just jam or collaborate. SOME, of my best friends, are not a mystery ;D.
Maybe we can start a drive or a call out to members to update their profiles (not mandatory, but appreciated)
FYI I did notice that to show your age the full birth date must be filled out. I had just the month and day originally as I really didn't want to much personal info out there. What I did was just alter the DAY or MONTH slightly so it does reflect my age in years without my true B-day being in cyber space ( not that it's probably not out there somewhere anyway)
We used to have a member map - we removed it during an SMF Update ( this entire forum is built on SMF)
http://www.simplemachines.org/ (http://www.simplemachines.org/)
But in this era of identity theft - not much motivation to restore it.
One thing I can tell you, we have most of the big guns in the guitar world ( or their Guitar techs) here as members, and while they may not post, they do stop in frequently to browse / read our forum, so realize your demonstrated brilliance on the forum might get you noticed and help get you a professional gig in the music world.
And any topic we discuss gets updated to the google search engine, which scans the site daily, and brings in many "Guests".
(https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.snapagogo.com%2Fuploads%2Fsource%2F1552015%2F1433518011_1171791719_VGF_Guests.PNG&hash=5413d0a4205d875ee1acceea24f7e13dd73c88c6)
what I was wondering was in rough terms what the split on locations looks like for the 13,500 ish members between USA, UK, Europe, other regions?
Cheers
Headless
We also have members in Russia, Ukraine, Asia, Philippines, Vietnam, India , South Africa, South America, Middle East, Israel, Afghanistan.
We are global
I did too much coffee today, & ended up doing some analytics in response to this query...
Bear in mind, during registration we ask for a 'location'. This is not a structured field. I am at the mercy of what y'all enter...
Many of our members are apparently from countries like: Rivendell, Home, Mars, the Basement, Downstairs, Far far away, and Earth. We have several from Deep Space. Hooda thunk?
I am most intrigued by our member in Antarctica. If you're reading this, please tell us your experiences & gear down there! (Plus, which 'sales region' is Antarctica in?)
So, I spent an hour or two cleaning up the raw data to conform to consistent names & group the world into regions to answer this question. It was time better spent than gritting my teeth during my coffee buzz.
This analysis is very imperfect and tested the limits of my geography skills... I'm sure I've offended someone... But here goes...
Row Labels Count of country
Unknown 4423
USA 3560
UK 1009
Canada 559
France 418
Germany 409
Australia 355
Italy 301
Brazil 281
Spain 202
Russia 138
Netherlands 124
Sweden 111
Poland 88
Norway 77
Turkey 77
Ireland 74
India 72
Belgium 65
Denmark 63
Argentina 60
Portugal 59
Greece 58
Switzerland 57
Japan 56
Mexico 51
Czech Republic 48
New Zealand 43
Finland 37
Serbia 37
Chile 35
China 34
Indonesia 34
Thailand 32
Israel 31
Philippines 29
Croatia 28
South Africa 27
Europe-Unspecified 24
Hungary 23
Ukraine 22
Romania 22
Singapore 21
UAE 18
South Korea 18
Colombia 16
Puerto Rico 14
Holland 12
Taiwan 10
Slovakia 10
Vietnam 10
Venezuela 9
Macedonia 8
Uruguay 8
Malaysia 8
Costa Rica 7
Cyprus 7
Slovenia 7
Bulgaria 6
Malta 6
Qatar 5
Bosnia-Herz 5
Egypt 5
Asia-Unspecified 5
Peru 5
Martinique 4
Saudi Arabia 4
Kuwait 4
Morocco 4
Belarus 4
Ecuador 4
Estonia 3
Lithuania 3
Iran 3
Kazakhstan 3
Latvia 3
Kosovo 3
Cape Verde 2
Luxemborg 2
Tunisia 2
Bolivia 2
Canary Islands 2
Montenegro 2
Nepal 2
Isle of Man 2
Algeria 2
Guatemala 2
Cayman Islands 1
Caribbean 1
Botswana 1
French Guyana 1
Maldives 1
Oman 1
Lebanon 1
Honduras 1
Bahamas 1
Pakistan 1
Frency Polynesia 1
Bahrain 1
Aruba 1
Ethiopia 1
Albania 1
Paraguay 1
Uganda 1
Brunai 1
Afghanistan 1
Sri Lanka 1
Angola 1
Barbados 1
Kenya 1
Cambodia 1
Antartica 1
Syria 1
Grand Total 13561
BTW, Texas is clearly more cool than New York. Hooda thunk?
Wow someone is from the Antarctica, who would have though :)
+1 and thanks for taking the time Shawn. Alright Buckeye's; let's huddle up and get to work!
Quote from: Vade on June 09, 2015, 10:53:13 PM
+1 and thanks for taking the time Shawn. Alright Buckeye's; let's huddle up and get to work!
Ohio has a very strong representation per capita already!
Thanks Shawn - thats exactly what I was looking for - most interesting info, more diverse than I was expecting too
Headless
Hail Ohio! (and of course Rivendell - Elven guitarists are the best, having had hundreds of years to practice).
Hey thanks for creating this. Pretty cool. The membership here is a bit less US- and UK-centric than I would have guessed - truly a global community. I might have expected the Japanese presence to be a bit higher given that the products we discuss most heaviy here originate in Japan.
Quote from: Vade on June 09, 2015, 10:53:13 PM
+1 and thanks for taking the time Shawn. Alright Buckeye's; let's huddle up and get to work!
Go Bucks!
I was expecting Japan to be up there too - maybe something else in play in local language ?
Quote from: vxboogie on June 10, 2015, 06:59:30 AM
Go Bucks!
..and in that spirit here's a music video produced by local artists; "Ohio" by D.A.P. featuring Adam Clements & Katie Doup. I think they nailed it myself. OH-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2sHG1HdO1k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2sHG1HdO1k)
Big ups to ShawnB!
I would love to see one more graph - same as the first one but with "Unknown" thrown out.
BTW an alternate analysis of your data proves that NY is cooler than TX; NY is so hip they only use obscure, vintage, analog gear :)
Just updated my profile - never thought to bother before seeing this thread. But location is a free text field. How are you parsing out country, state, etc?
QuoteI was expecting Japan to be up there too - maybe something else in play in local language ?
Roland Japan supports a proper User to User Forum
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13299.msg103577#msg103577 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=13299.msg103577#msg103577)
http://okbizcs.okwave.jp/roland/questionlist/?cid=80 (http://okbizcs.okwave.jp/roland/questionlist/?cid=80)
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Quote from: mbenigni on June 10, 2015, 08:37:16 AMBut location is a free text field. How are you parsing out country, state, etc?
The work was manual. Most people entered usable info.
An awful lot of data filtering & global replaces in Excel. Plus a lot of assumptions, such as 'cali' = California. In the screenshots below, the raw location info is on the left. I would filter on something, like "cali", then copy 'CA' where it made sense (Calicut stands out in the screenshot below).
Quote from: MusicOverGear on June 10, 2015, 07:49:42 AM
I would love to see one more graph - same as the first one but with "Unknown" thrown out.
Below!
Being a proud Canadian , I am impressed with our number compared to our smallish population.
Nothing to do in a snow storm but play with guitar gear :)
Thats pretty cool. Shawn, Thanks for the effort