New Google maps

August 16, 2007

why do you have to be 15 miles or closer to view caches on the new google maps? i like being zoomed out if im thinking about going to a new area to see if there are alot of caches i would like to visit, now i have to continually click and move the map 15 miles at a time. i liked the old maps much better.

2.1k · August 16, 2007

I believe the old maps only showed 20 caches anyways so being way zoomed out was pretty useless in showing all the caches. Maybe 15 miles worth of caches is all the maps can handle. Or at least for now.

August 16, 2007

I like the new one better, now I can see the maps without all the huge cache icons popping up.

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Edited August 16, 2007 by wwflover13

14.3k · August 16, 2007

I like the new one better, now I can see the maps without all the huge cache icons popping up.

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I like the small icons too. I noticed that there is a checkbox for Locationless caches, but I'm pretty sure those were all moved to Waymarking. Speaking of which you can view waymarks on these new maps.

August 16, 2007

The new maps are beautiful!! :surprise: Is there a trick to getting the individual cache types to show/hide? Checking and unchecking the box doesn't appear to do anything for me. Hide my finds works though. I feel like I'm missing something.

14.3k · August 16, 2007

The new maps are beautiful!! Is there a trick to getting the individual cache types to show/hide? Checking and unchecking the box doesn't appear to do anything for me. Hide my finds works though. I feel like I'm missing something.

It works for me. Try checking or unchecking a box and then zooming out to refresh the map.

August 16, 2007

The new maps are beautiful!! Is there a trick to getting the individual cache types to show/hide? Checking and unchecking the box doesn't appear to do anything for me. Hide my finds works though. I feel like I'm missing something.
It works for me. Try checking or unchecking a box and then zooming out to refresh the map.

Nope. I just checked in Firefox and see how it's supposed to work. When I open in IE 6, the boxes come up unchecked at the start. Checking, unchecking, scrolling, zooming in, zooming out don't change the caches that appear (all of them). "Hide my finds" also starts unchecked and works correctly when I check or uncheck it. Please don't make me upgrade to IE 7. I don't wanna.

Edited August 16, 2007 by kelita13

August 16, 2007

Nope. I just checked in Firefox and see how it's supposed to work. When I open in IE 6, the boxes come up unchecked at the start. Checking, unchecking, scrolling, zooming in, zooming out don't change the caches that appear (all of them). "Hide my finds" also starts unchecked and works correctly when I check or uncheck it. Please don't make me upgrade to IE 7. I don't wanna.

IE 7 aint so bad really. I actually prefer it to IE6 now.

(when i have to. i'm a hardcore firefoxer anyway :surprise:

The Waymarking thing is cool, but since it is a 'link', not a checkbox, i had no idea it would just show the waymarks on the current map. I didn't click it before, since i thought it would take me to the Waymarking site. It should be checkbox, not a link. And it's strange that they disable when you move the map. If i have waymarks on, i want to keep them on when i move the map!

August 16, 2007

Having to be within 15 miles is a killer for places without a high cache density. Living in Okanogan there are only 3 caches within the 15 miles parameter. And as I move it around more often than not there are zero caches within 15 miles so it makes it hard to find caches. More distance is needed!!

1.1k · August 16, 2007

Love the new google maps, especially the smaller icons.

Bug report:

When I check "Hide my finds" they do disappear. When I drag the map any amount, they reappear even though that checkbox is still checked.

Same bug for the "Hide my caches" checkbox.

The other checkboxes seem to work as expected.

(bug shows in both Firefox 2.0.0.3 and IE 7.0)

1.2k · August 16, 2007

If you need to view the map at more then 15 miles, I suggest you view it in Google Earth which is built to handle larger amounts of data.

Until we can implement clustering and such, thats my suggestion.

-Raine

August 16, 2007

The new Google maps are very nice. A great improvement.

The one feature I miss : It is still not possible to hide the caches on the ignore list. That feature would be great.

August 16, 2007

Having to be within 15 miles is a killer for places without a high cache density. Living in Okanogan there are only 3 caches within the 15 miles parameter. And as I move it around more often than not there are zero caches within 15 miles so it makes it hard to find caches. More distance is needed!!

I live in Ar. and there are not that many caches around me. i will travel quite a ways to go to one. but i liked having the map zoomed out to show half of Arkansas to see where i wanted to go. Missouri is the same way. i wish they would at least give premium members the option of zooming out farther.

August 16, 2007

Oh dear.....I really don't like the 15 mile zoom range......need more please! I like to look at a large area and see all before zooming in.

August 16, 2007

The 15 mile limit is absolute torture. It completely destroys the usefulness of the maps.

All the "improvements" in these new maps aren't new at all. You could do everything the new maps can do before by combining pocket queries and the map previews.

So since we haven't gained any real new features but we're now stuck with a 15 mile limit and we also don't have map previews on the pocket queries, I feel like my ability to map out my days of caching has been chopped in half.

I sometimes wonder if the programmers who make these changes do any caching themselves. Because it certainly doesn't seem like the changes are being made by people who actually use the software.

Edited August 16, 2007 by SkyRattlers

August 16, 2007

Totally liked the old maps better!!!

Issues:

- doesn't seem to allow me to move the map sometimes. On IE, vista. This seems to be when I come from a cache page map. If I use search zipcode and then map all, it looks like it can.

Unavailable functionality:

- to see at a glance the caches by name in an area and their location!

- ability to print a map with cache names by the locations (see above)

- ability to see zoomed out the number of caches in an area (see previous poster)

We really, really used this functionality.

August 16, 2007

Have to agree on the 15 mile limit. Would like somewhere around 30 at least. Though admittedly, the old maps would only show 20 caches at a time. I just like looking at a map that shows more area.

August 16, 2007

Unavailable functionality:

- to see at a glance the caches by name in an area and their location!

- ability to print a map with cache names by the locations (see above)

- ability to see zoomed out the number of caches in an area (see previous poster)

We really, really used this functionality.

I have to agree with geochiles. I liked the functionality that the old maps provided better.

It seems the thing that everyone likes on the new maps are the smaller icons on the map itself.

Fine, then bring back the old maps, but use smaller icons on the map.

I'm finding this new map very user unfriendly.

2.1k · August 16, 2007

looks like the old maps are back :mad:

August 16, 2007

Nope. I just checked in Firefox and see how it's supposed to work. When I open in IE 6, the boxes come up unchecked at the start. Checking, unchecking, scrolling, zooming in, zooming out don't change the caches that appear (all of them). "Hide my finds" also starts unchecked and works correctly when I check or uncheck it. Please don't make me upgrade to IE 7. I don't wanna.

Just by way of FYI, I checked this on my work computer before the revert. It also has IE 6 (which, officially, I'm not supposed to change, though I was secretly given the power to. I like to play by the rules on this and not piss off IT.) It operated the same as my home computer. No change in caches appearing, only changes in my finds.

14.3k · August 16, 2007

looks like the old maps are back

Just until some of the small quirks are worked out....

August 16, 2007

I like the new maps as well - but it didn't seem to refresh the caches displayed correctly when I'd move (pan) the map to a new center-point. If I had the checkbox selected to "hide my finds" - it would ignore it, and show them all anyway.

Even with that.. I like it better than the old maps - with the exception of long distance driving. I like to have a bigger overall view when driving the Dallas/Lubbock route via Hwy 114 - and there's not a lot of caches in between... A larger view is helpful in those cases... But there's always Google Maps for my Dash for that application...

ShadowHawk (and for some reason it never logged me in to MY account after logging the kids finds last night!)

Edited August 16, 2007 by BeBop99

3.6k · August 16, 2007

and we also don't have map previews on the pocket queries

That feature is still there, it's on the PQ page, left side, second icon from the left, right beside the lighting bolt with the green arrow.

August 16, 2007

and we also don't have map previews on the pocket queries

That feature is still there, it's on the PQ page, left side, second icon from the left, right beside the lighting bolt with the green arrow.

They changed back to the old code. Under the new code that they had it was gone.

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