A rough idea I haven't really thought through yet is a combination of this and a text form field with autocomplete. You could either click on a country or start typing. The auto complete suggestions would then correlate to highlighted countries on the map.
Thanks, Jeff On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Jake Trimble <[email protected]>wrote: > Using a user's IP address to tell you where they are is NOT a good > idea. The proxy will fool you too often. > > For accessibility and language issues I would use a graphical map > approach just like Jack suggested. This way even if the language is > different, the user still knows where their country is on a map and > will be able to select it. > > You can tie into Google's API...this is an old file I found > (http://www.nearby.org.uk/coords/countries.csv), but you can see how > you can use the coordinates to create polygons to outline countries. > > -Jake > > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
