Geocaching.com Google Map coordinates off after Pan

[+zippes]

Jeremy and/or the team

 

Your folks may be aware of this ‘anomaly’… but just in case it has slipped by… here is the description of the anomaly using Geocaching.com Google Map.

 

Circumstances: Was making a quick check, via above Google Map, for caches in an area that I was planning to be in. Since I didn’t know the zip code or close waypoint name, I went to a cache near me (GCZDA6) and selected “Geocaching.com Google Map” link below the write-up. The map came up and once it was complete it showed that, within the map, I had a single cache located at

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/gmnearest.a...;lng=-96.82497#

 

I then used the ‘pan’ feature to move up I-35 until I was in Dallas at about the intersection of I-35 (Stemmons) and “Dallas North Tollway”.

 

When the map caught up with this ‘panning’ exercise, it showed me the a whole bunch of caches within that area, each were listed by name in the right hand frame but what I noticed was…. Each cache was linked to the following URL (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/gmnearest.aspx?lat=32.48737&lng=-96.82497#) which was the original coordinates to GCZDA6.

 

Thought you might want to know… (in case inquiring minds were needing a challenge and all

 

Rasstag

[+Prime Suspect]

Jeremy and/or the team

 

Your folks may be aware of this ‘anomaly’… but just in case it has slipped by… here is the description of the anomaly using Geocaching.com Google Map.

 

Circumstances: Was making a quick check, via above Google Map, for caches in an area that I was planning to be in. Since I didn’t know the zip code or close waypoint name, I went to a cache near me (GCZDA6) and selected “Geocaching.com Google Map” link below the write-up. The map came up and once it was complete it showed that, within the map, I had a single cache located at

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/gmnearest.a...;lng=-96.82497#

 

I then used the ‘pan’ feature to move up I-35 until I was in Dallas at about the intersection of I-35 (Stemmons) and “Dallas North Tollway”.

 

When the map caught up with this ‘panning’ exercise, it showed me the a whole bunch of caches within that area, each were listed by name in the right hand frame but what I noticed was…. Each cache was linked to the following URL (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/gmnearest.aspx?lat=32.48737&lng=-96.82497#) which was the original coordinates to GCZDA6.

 

Thought you might want to know… (in case inquiring minds were needing a challenge and all

 

Rasstag

 

Those are essentially dummy links. The trailing # on the URL keeps it from reloading the page. The only purpose of the link is to open up the info area above the map for that cache. So the coordinates in the link are irrelevant.

Edited March 4, 2007 by Prime Suspect

[+zippes]

 

Those are essentially dummy links. The trailing # on the URL keeps it from reloading the page. The only purpose of the link is to open up the info area above the map for that cache. So the coordinates in the link are irrelevant.

 

mmmmmm... ok Prime... I understand about the HTML "#", however ... I'm trying to understand if my expectations are 'in the weeds'

 

.. when I go to the "Didjano" cache in Google Maps ... on the right hand side it shows:

 

1 Geocaches Found in search area

 

...after panning North into Dallas the map shows:

 

15 Geocaches Found in search area

 

As you can see, the "search area" information is complete with Name, Type, etc... but the 'link' under each cache name is the "Didjano" coordinates for ALL 15 of the listed caches.

 

My question is, are my expectations of the link being correct along with the other information... unreasonable? Hey... if I'm trying to make Google Maps do something which exceeds it's design or programming limits... that's fine... I can live with that... but if this falls in to the category of an "undocumented feature"... then all I'm doing is raising a flag so someone can check it out.

 

Rasstag

[+The Leprechauns]

What you are describing is best done in Google Earth. There, you can click anywhere and find out the associated coordinates. As Prime Suspect explained, the online Geocaching Google Maps don't have the functionality to tell you the latitude and longitude if you pan the map.

[+zippes]

Understood... thanks Prime and Leprechauns... I will choose a different utility.

 

Regards,

 

Rasstag

[+alexrudd]

It *could*, although I'm not sure of the technical details. I've seen a GM script do it, which means it technically possible for gc.com to do it in it's Gmap script.

[+Raine]

True, it could, but that's not the purpose of this map.

-Raine