knowschad Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 For at least two days, I have been unable to get to the Microsoft Mappoint maps from a cache page. I'm using IE7 and Firefox 3.0.4 , Win XP SP2. I've seen this on three computers and two networks. The page first loads while and stays that way for a lonnnggg time, then eventually goes to the blue page with the menu on top, and those links work, but I never get the map (which, gasp! also means no Birdseye Views!!!) I can't be the only one seeing this behavior, am I? Link to comment
+markandsandy Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 For at least two days, I have been unable to get to the Microsoft Mappoint maps from a cache page. I'm using IE7 and Firefox 3.0.4 , Win XP SP2. I've seen this on three computers and two networks. The page first loads while and stays that way for a lonnnggg time, then eventually goes to the blue page with the menu on top, and those links work, but I never get the map (which, gasp! also means no Birdseye Views!!!) I can't be the only one seeing this behavior, am I? Same problem here, with IE6 & XP SP2 Link to comment
OpinioNate Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Yea it looks like Mappoint is down. We'll investigate to see if they changed the way map requests are handled but I suspect they are just experiencing some issues on their end. Link to comment
OpinioNate Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 According to Raine he seems to recall something about MapPoint ending map support sometime in the future. The future may be now. Now will be a good time to switch to Microsoft Live Maps instead, so that will be in the next release. Link to comment
Skippermark Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 MapPoint isn't working for me either, but Live Maps is working fine. If anyone uses GSAK, and wants to be able to right click on a cache and have it open in Live Maps, paste this into the Tools/Options/HTML menu. It'll open that cache directly in Live Maps. Live Maps=http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?wip=2&v=2&style=r&rtp=~&&cp=%lat~%lon&lvl=13&sp=aN.%lat_%lon_%ShortName=30 Link to comment
+Raine Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I've updated our internal code to point to the new URL.. It will be out in the next release which will be early next month. -Raine Link to comment
knowschad Posted January 26, 2009 Author Share Posted January 26, 2009 I've updated our internal code to point to the new URL.. It will be out in the next release which will be early next month. -Raine Thanks for the fast work, folks! Link to comment
+dsquaredd2 Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 I am enjoying Live Maps but not seeing the cache coordinates marked. Is there a setting that I need to change to view? Regards, dsquaredd2 Link to comment
+G.B.Heron Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 me too. maps come up fine, but no pointer. Link to comment
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