Peanut Butters Posted June 8, 2006 Posted June 8, 2006 I believe as of yesterday or the day before if you clicked on the Google Maps link on a Cache or Benchmark it would take you to Google Maps with the point centered and it marked. It no longer is marked, but just centered on that point. I believe this has nothing to do with the Geocaching.com web site, but more of a Google Maps issue where they changed the behavior of how this works over the last few days. Anyone have any details? I looked around the Google Maps API Discussion form but couldn't find anything about this change.
+Prime Suspect Posted June 8, 2006 Posted June 8, 2006 I looked around the Google Maps API Discussion form but couldn't find anything about this change. You're right that it's a Google issue, not GC. I'm not surprised that the API forum hasn't discussed it, because maps created by the APIs just do what the programmers have made them do. Any center point push-pin that's on an API driven map is there because the programmer explicitly put it there.
Peanut Butters Posted June 8, 2006 Author Posted June 8, 2006 I understand this, but there is no other place to really discuss Google Maps by itself. Someone just started a topic in the API Group about this. This would become a GC issue if they could change the link to bring back the old behavior.
+Jeremy Posted June 8, 2006 Posted June 8, 2006 It does look like they changed the behavior. Since we're just linking off to Google in this case there isn't a whole lot we can do on our end. Just use the Geocaching Google map link which will still center the location for you and provide caches in a better way anyway. "Geocaching.com Google Map"
Peanut Butters Posted June 8, 2006 Author Posted June 8, 2006 I'll be watching the API Group for a fix for this, but if this is a permenent change it would be nice if the link took you to the currently Beta Google Maps version of the GC site and center on the cache you clicked on. Don't want you to make a knee-jerk reaction on this, but I'm hoping Google either puts this back, or gives us another parameter to pass to get this working the way it did.
Peanut Butters Posted June 8, 2006 Author Posted June 8, 2006 And a Google Employee has responded with: We noticed this too, and it has been filed as a bug. So maybe it will be fixed.
+Prime Suspect Posted June 8, 2006 Posted June 8, 2006 And a Google Employee has responded with: We noticed this too, and it has been filed as a bug. So maybe it will be fixed. Where the bugs are filed:
Peanut Butters Posted June 8, 2006 Author Posted June 8, 2006 Haha... that's what I thought. But check it out... And a fix has already been submitted, and it should be resolved in our next push. So it shall be fixed next push... whenever that is.
+Prime Suspect Posted June 8, 2006 Posted June 8, 2006 Haha... that's what I thought. But check it out... And a fix has already been submitted, and it should be resolved in our next push. So it shall be fixed next push... whenever that is. A google push. Sounds painful.
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted June 9, 2006 Posted June 9, 2006 Just use the Geocaching Google map link which will still center the location for you and provide caches in a better way anyway. "Geocaching.com Google Map" Cool! When did that get added?!?!
+WascoZooKeeper Posted June 11, 2006 Posted June 11, 2006 It doesn't appear to be a matter of the link from the cache page. If you just go directly to http://maps.google.com and type a lat/long into the search box, you get the same result. Interestingly enough, if you search for an ADDRESS, it works fine.
Peanut Butters Posted June 11, 2006 Author Posted June 11, 2006 It doesn't appear to be a matter of the link from the cache page. If you just go directly to http://maps.google.com and type a lat/long into the search box, you get the same result. Interestingly enough, if you search for an ADDRESS, it works fine. I found out that Google released an update last week which introduced this bug. It will be fixed when they roll out the next version. It has nothing to do with the GC web site, so it affects everyone that does a query for latitude/longitude.
+LeGodFather Posted June 12, 2006 Posted June 12, 2006 It has been fixed. Marker with new color and new shape.
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