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Find your nearest scout groups from your street address, town, suburb or postcode.
Enter address (or postcode):

Then click on an icon for more details.


As you move around the map, this list will update to show the closest groups.
Locate Group:
Locate other facility (eg. campsites):

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To add a group to the map, please email me at tyakunda@gmail.com. Please include as many of the following as possible: Group Name, Street address, Website URL, and Coordinates (see below).

To get accurate coordinates, use the address search, then zoom in as much as possible, and drag the map (or double click to re-center) so that your scout hall / den is right in the centre of the map.
Click here to add a centre marker.
The current map is centered on the coordinates:

The Australian Scout Group Locator aims to allow visitors to find scout groups based on Location, rather than just name. It currently has about 470 groups marked, about half in Queensland. It allows users to search by address, group name, or just browse around and find maps.

The Australian Scout Group Locator started off as a map of the Tyakunda District, and tried to show driving directions to each of the groups. Some nearby groups were added, and the driving directions discarded. It then evolved to the Queensland Scout Mapping Project, showing almost all of the scout groups in Queensland. It is now being expanded and redesigned to be Australia wide, and easier to use.

From a programmers point of view, it is an XHTML 1.0 document, using javascript and cascading stylesheets (css). The maps are based around the Google Maps API. The pages are W3 Standards compliant, and have been designed to work on most common web browsers.

Webmasters of Australian Scouting websites are encouraged to embed the locator inside their website, or link to the locator. Options include:
  • Interactive Map
  • Links to nearby groups (automatically updated)
  • Text or graphic links to the locator

More details at: http://tyakunda.scoutsqld.com.au/webmasters.html

Copyright 2007-2008, Robert Gibson, Lake Burley Griffin Rover Crew, Scouts Australia
Designed by Robert Gibson - email tyakunda@gmail.com
Updated August 2008
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