+wozainali Posted March 21, 2021 Posted March 21, 2021 Is it just me, or is the link to streetmap.co.uk broken? When I open a cache listing, then click on the link for online maps to Streetmap.co.uk, I get the message "404 Error for /newmap.srf " I can open streetmap in a separate tab and enter coordinates and all is well, so it looks like some problem with the link from geocaching.com Quote
+gillywig Posted March 23, 2021 Posted March 23, 2021 Streetmap link does not work This occurs on more than one device and more than one browser (ie Firefox & Chrome) 404 Error for /newmap.srf If newmap.srf?x is replaced with map.?x it works Anyone else got this issue and any tips how to resolve the problem. (I have cleared the cookies) Thanks Quote
Keystone Posted March 23, 2021 Posted March 23, 2021 I merged together two threads about the same issue. Thank you for the reports. Quote
+wozainali Posted April 1, 2021 Author Posted April 1, 2021 Having dug into this a little, the recommended formats for Streetmap are listed here: https://www.streetmap.co.uk/idlinkto.htm I've tried out UK Grid format and that works. The "newmap.srf" or "map.srf" format doesn't seem to be listed there, though as gilliwig says, the latter does work. So my guess is that Streetmap have changed something which has broken the geocaching.com link format. Looking online for random searches, many websites seem to use the "newmap.srf" format, and of course they are all broken. Interestingly, Streetmap's own "Contact Us" link is also broken. Apart from writing to their Milton Keynes address, I'm stumped for the moment (no, not a clue to one of my hides ). The performance also seems very slow recently, so something must be going on there. Hope it survives, The OS maps provided by the Streetmap link are much better than the Google ones. 1 Quote
em_adventuring Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 Thank you for reporting this issue. We have passed this along to the Engineering team. Quote
+pklong Posted April 3, 2021 Posted April 3, 2021 If it helps anyone, just remove the three letters "new" from the URL in the address bar, hit enter, and it will work fine. 1 Quote
+The Wombles Posted April 13, 2021 Posted April 13, 2021 This doesn’t work for me. When I attempt to use the Streetmap link from a UK cache page then I get the following error message “404 Error for /newmap.srf” Quote
+thehoomer Posted April 15, 2021 Posted April 15, 2021 I’m scuppered too. This is how I load caches for a trip. AAAAARRRRGGGHHHHHH. 1 Quote
+little-leggs Posted April 23, 2021 Posted April 23, 2021 On 4/3/2021 at 8:05 AM, pklong said: If it helps anyone, just remove the three letters "new" from the URL in the address bar, hit enter, and it will work fine. spot on , this worked for Me ....... tnx Quote
+wozainali Posted May 7, 2021 Author Posted May 7, 2021 Yes, just to be clear, if you look at the URL above when you get the "404 Error for /newmap.srf” message, it appears something like https://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=... Just remove the "new" so it looks like https://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=... Is anyone fixing this error? Should be a trivial change. We get new updates we don't always want with great frequency 1 2 Quote
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