Dude I was literally going to say the same thing. It wouldn't be that hard to make a plugin that pulls members locations from their profiles then display them on a map, for the people who don't have a location set in their profile it could just put a dot in Narnia or something.
400 miles for me.
Our weather is so bipolar here that we have set a few world records. Rapid City SD currently holds the world record for the shortest gap between 100* temps and measurable snow. It stands at 2 days...