Profiles as nodes and GMAP

Hello all,

I'm looking to switch my user profiles to nodes because it gives me more flexibility with gmap.

Unless my user profiles are nodes, I can't use views to select them (or subsets of them) to display on a google map.

Has anyone had any experience of creating user location maps with nodeprofile/userprofile and gmap?

I've hesitated until now to change profiles to nodes. I'm not so worried about performance (low traffic site) but I don't want clashes with all my other installed modules!

crossing my fingers...

Cheers