MapChat - Demo

A super simple location based chat

Features

• Super simple location based chat.
• No registration or message history.
• Built-in Google Translate widget.
• Create a private chat map by adding #name to the url.

MapChat is using ipinfo.io to identify the user location, since the geolcation API is no longer enabled in non-https websites.

Embed MapChat in your website

• Simply add this iframe to your website:

  <iframe id="mapchat" type="text/html" width="640" height="480"
  src="http://idoco.github.io/map-chat/#myTopic"
  frameborder="0"></iframe>

  • The minimum recommended size it 640x480.
  • It is recommended to embed private map chats by using a unique #topic.

How to deploy your own instance

• Have Vert.x (2.1.5) on your path.
• Run the server with "vertx run ChatVerticle.java".
• Open index.html.
• Chat.

Contributing to MapChat

• Use GitHub Issues to report bugs and suggest new features.
• Please search the existing issues for your bug and create a new one only if the issue is not yet tracked!
• Feel free to fork this project and suggest new features as pull requests.

Demo

This demo is hosted on GitHub pages and uses a single core Azure instance as the Vert.x SockJS server.