Google Maps Links on GC.com Are Broken?

[+pgrig]

I'm not sure what's going on here...

 

Recently, when I click on a Google Maps link at the right side of a Details page for a benchmark on GC.com, I get a "we could not understand the location" error page, next to a national-level map of the US. This is apparently because GC.com (?) has started inserting successive open- and closed- parens characters [like this: () ] at the end of the lat/long string. If I edit out these characters, it works fine. Is this something my computer is inserting into the lat/long reference?

 

I'm not sure if this happens all the time or just every now and then...

 

Thanks,

-Paul

[+Mega Scooter]

Paul,

 

I have been seeing this too. Thanks for discovering and publishing this simple work-around. Three BACKSPACES and ENTER. Why didn't I see that?

 

Thanks again,

MS

[Wintertime]

Good catch, Paul.

 

I looked at a geocache listing, and on those, Gc.com is inserting the cache ID in the parens. Google Maps is happy when there's text inside the parens. I don't know whether that's a recent addition to their Google Maps calls. If so, perhaps they forgot to add code that would insert the PID when Google Maps is called from a benchmark page rather than a geocache page.

 

Have you dropped a note to Groundspeak about the problem?

 

Patty

[+pgrig]

Patty--

 

That would give me credit for knowing how to drop Groundspeak a note...

 

I will now figure out how to do that and message them.

 

-Paul

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Edit:

 

OK. I emailed them.

Edited December 7, 2008 by pgrig

[2oldfarts (the rockhounders)]

Patty--

 

That would give me credit for knowing how to drop Groundspeak a note...

 

I will now figure out how to do that and message them.

 

-Paul

_____________________

 

Edit:

 

OK. I emailed them.

 

You might also go to the Geocaching.com Web Site Forum next time you come up with a bug. That is usually the quickest way to get to the Techies that run the site and try to fix these type of things.

 

Shirley~

[Wintertime]

Paul--Glad you found the email link. :-)

 

Shirley--Thanks for the reminder that there's a forum devoted to website issues.

 

Patty