How do you post a picture of your map

by **jleonnn** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:57 am

How do you post your map?

by **jleonnn** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:02 am

I've already come up with a draft, but don't know how to post it.
Can someone please reply to this question?
God bless,thanks

by **WidowMakers** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:07 am

Here you go. This is from the Map Making Tools

To be able to get a map through the foundry you need to upload your images and XML onto a hosting site. Here are some sites that our map makers also swear by:
http://photobucket.com/

Highly reliable site that lets you upload and store image files. 1GB storage space and 25GB of monthly bandwidth allowance for free members.

http://imageshack.us/

Free file storage with unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth. Additional tools/plugins that allow for quick and easy uploading of images.

Make your account and upload the image to one of these. Then come back to the forums and paste the direct link to the image in your post.
Make sure that you use the image button above to display the linked file and not just the link

Code: Select all: [img]PLACE YOU IMAGE LINK HERE[/img]

by **gimil** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:08 am

jleonnn wrote:I've already come up with a draft, but don't know how to post it.
Can someone please reply to this question?
God bless,thanks

Firstly you need a membership at a hosting site, some of the best ones are:

http://photobucket.com/
Highly reliable site that lets you upload and store image files. 1GB storage space and 25GB of monthly bandwidth allowance for free members.

http://imageshack.us/
Free file storage with unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth. Additional tools/plugins that allow for quick and easy uploading of images.

http://ripway.com/
Good hosting site that allows you to upload any file type. Good for both XML and images. Small bandwidth and storage allowance.

http://www.fileden.com/
A free file hosting site. 1GB of personal storage space. 50mb maximum file size limit. 5GB of monthly bandwidth. Direct link to XMl files.

Once you are a member you can uplaod your images to the hosting site. Once you have uploaded your image you should have a direct link to that image, you that along with [img] (or for bigger iamges, [bigimg]) tags to show your image.

For example:

Code: Select all: [img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2247/2274322787_12a37c5e91.jpg?v=0[/img]

Shows this

Hope that helps you, and welcome to the foundry

by **gimil** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:08 am

I hate fastposting widowmakers!

by **jleonnn** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:15 am

Thanks, that was some real help

by **WidowMakers** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:39 am

gimil wrote:I hate fastposting widowmakers!

Normally I am fastposted. It is nice to fastpost someone myself for a change. :-)

by **oaktown** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:13 pm

all these basic questions we've been fielding lately... we really need to get the Mapmakers' Guide up and running.

by **sailorseal** on Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:56 pm

Also if it says can not determine siz of map try using big imp and if it still doesn't work you might have done the link wrong

by **gimil** on Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:26 pm

sailorseal wrote:Also if it says can not determine siz of map try using big imp and if it still doesn't work you might have done the link wrong

This is a weird problem I have never found a real solution to. The best advice I can offer is to delete the image from your hosting account and re-upload it with a different file name.