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Michael Swanson
 
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Michael Swanson
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06 May 2007 02:30
 

You will see a new feature in the Quick Links menu.  The Google map shows users’ locations.  Anyone wanting to appear in the map must enter their coordinates by zooming into their town and clicking on the coordinates.  You can also add your achievement, name, and a line of text.

 
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WBHenry
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06 May 2007 13:42
 

Hi, Michael, just one of your two "guinee pigs"!  When I pass my cursor over a "pin," the info is not coming up like it did last night.  I have tried clicking and double clicking.  Pin just stares at me, taunting me.  Has something changed with this function that I am unaware of?

 
Michael Swanson
 
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06 May 2007 13:46
 

WBHenry;44483 wrote:

Hi, Michael, just one of your two "guinee pigs"!  When I pass my cursor over a "pin," the info is not coming up like it did last night.  I have tried clicking and double clicking.  Pin just stares at me, taunting me.  Has something changed with this function that I am unaware of?


Works for me.  Reload the map and try again.

 
J Duncan of Sketraw
 
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08 May 2007 12:05
 

Doesn’t work for me I am afraid either, but does allow me to zoom in OK.

I am glad however that it is a bit misty over NE Scotland, stops Rev. William seeing what I am doing with my Curtains  wink

 
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08 May 2007 12:31
 

hahahahah!!!

You’re still working on that?

 

**Note: That is an inside joke from chat, you all should be there!**

 

After much difficulty, I was able to place my marker, it should be in Cairo, Egypt, but it just stuck in the middle of the desert. Better than nothing though, since before that it placed me in the following:

 

1. Middle of the Atlantic

2. The Crimea

3. Central India

4. A little bit offshore from Ghana

5. Iraq!

 

Cheers,

 
Michael Swanson
 
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08 May 2007 13:32
 

If you have trouble with coordinates in the AHS map , then you can cut and past them from this utility.

http://www.gorissen.info/Pierre/maps/googleMapLocationv3.php?lat=42.811522&lon=-96.152344

 

Here are the browsers supported:

 

http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=16539&topic=10789

 

Here is how to troubleshoot using IE:

 

http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=21849&topic=10789

 
James Dempster
 
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09 May 2007 01:22
 

J Duncan of Sketraw;44571 wrote:

Doesn’t work for me I am afraid either, but does allow me to zoom in OK.

I am glad however that it is a bit misty over NE Scotland, stops Rev. William seeing what I am doing with my Curtains  wink


I was able to get it to work by getting Latitude and Longitude from www.streetmap.co.uk

 

If you type in your postcode then it should give you a pretty good location. If you try placenames, it doesn’t find Sketraw, not even Alvah, but it finds The Pole easily so you should be able to get something good enough for jazz.

 

Scrolling down below the map there is an area of the Streetmap page on blue background, just above their copyright statement. It gives a URL to link to the map but also " Click here to convert/measure coordinates". That brings up a table that shows OS grid references, Landranger references and two forms of latitude and longitude. The all-numeric form of latitude and longitude can be pasted into Google maps.

 

James

 
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09 May 2007 08:37
 

After about an hour of tweeking with it, I got my marker within 1/4 miles (0.5 kilometers) from my home. In which direction is for you to guess!  wink

 
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emrys
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09 May 2007 09:31
 

after some tweeking I got my marker in the exact street where I live, and you can zoom in real close wink

 
Jonathan R. Baker
 
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09 May 2007 10:28
 

I’ve got mine sitting on my apartment building.

JRB

 
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09 May 2007 10:52
 

Michael,

Tried everything in the post above.  Even did a system restore back to Sunday (when it worked), but when I pass the cursor over a pin, all is says at the bottom is "error on page."  Any other suggestions?  I can see the map, I can see the pins, I just cannot get the information and the shields to display.  (Someone lives there, but I don’t know who…!)

 
Michael Swanson
 
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09 May 2007 17:21
 

WBHenry;44626 wrote:

Michael,

Tried everything in the post above.  Even did a system restore back to Sunday (when it worked), but when I pass the cursor over a pin, all is says at the bottom is "error on page."  Any other suggestions?  I can see the map, I can see the pins, I just cannot get the information and the shields to display.  (Someone lives there, but I don’t know who…!)


Possibly, you are not accepting cookies.

 

Instructions to Enable Cookies on Internet Explorer

http://www.sahra.arizona.edu/kt/web/cookies_ie.html

 

Instructions to Enable Cookies on Firefox

http://www.sahra.arizona.edu/kt/web/cookies_firefox.html

 
WBHenry
 
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09 May 2007 17:42
 

Michael,

I usually use IE.  Jonathan suggested I download Firefox.  Did that and the map works perfectly.  I guess IE doesn’t like the map (and sometimes the chat room).  Thanks!  :D

 
Michael Swanson
 
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10 May 2007 00:00
 

WBHenry;44644 wrote:

Michael,

I usually use IE.  Jonathan suggested I download Firefox.


I won’t tell Bill Gates.

 
Michael Swanson
 
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10 May 2007 15:52
 

The maps are fixed so they work with IE 7.

 
WBHenry
 
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10 May 2007 16:07
 

Thank you!  Works like a champ!