+astrandb Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Something for Jeremy to consider The MS MapPoint maps have not been really useful in Europe. But I found out a way that will display detailed maps. Just add the parameter "L=EUR&" to the mappoint URL for caches in Europe and voila! Compare the new european map to the old european map /Åke S Link to comment
+Divine Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Hey! That's great! Hopefully they can implement the L=EUR& thing in the Mappoint link in the cache pages too. Thanks for the information! Link to comment
+astrandb Posted December 17, 2003 Author Share Posted December 17, 2003 Hopefully they can implement the L=EUR& thing in the Mappoint link in the cache pages too. It was my hope that they would. /Åke S Link to comment
+Equipo Geocaching.es Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Yes, it looks much better. Did you send a message to contact@Groundspeak.com as well? This will be great for all of us Link to comment
+Equipo Geocaching.es Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Sorry, Probably there is no need to send the e-mail as Jeremy is very active at this forum Thanks for the information any way Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Hey! That's great! Hopefully they can implement the L=EUR& thing in the Mappoint link in the cache pages too. Thanks for the information! The trick will be figuring out on which caches it should be implemented. Link to comment
+astrandb Posted December 17, 2003 Author Share Posted December 17, 2003 The trick will be figuring out on which caches it should be implemented. That should not be too difficult. All cache descriptions contain information on Country/State. If the cache is situated in any of the european countries the EUR version should be used. MapPoint has not detailed maps for all european countries today but that is no problem since the default low-res map will then be displayed. /Åke S Link to comment
+Divine Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Hey! That's great! Hopefully they can implement the L=EUR& thing in the Mappoint link in the cache pages too. Thanks for the information! The trick will be figuring out on which caches it should be implemented. I'm not sure, but the answer may be on European caches (L=EUR&), or maybe even caches outside the US. Maybe the implementation can be done with the country code used by Gc.com. Link to comment
+ClayJar Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Okay, time to add it to Watcher, but I was wondering one thing... does anybody have a list of the countries for which this should be specified? Watcher displays map links based on the value of the country element, and I don't want to miss anyone. Link to comment
+astrandb Posted December 17, 2003 Author Share Posted December 17, 2003 MapPoint currently supports street level data in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. However, there is no danger to use &L=EUR for all countries in Europe since the default low-res map will be shown if the country is not supported. /Åke S Link to comment
+ClayJar Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 As I key off the "country" element, and as the default *must* be to *not* have the "L=EUR" passed, I have added the value specifically to the map link in Watcher for Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. As soon as the new release passes final testing, you'll have it. If there are any other map links (or countries to specify for existing map links), just let me know, and thanks for the info on this one. Link to comment
+Divine Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 (edited) If there are any other map links (or countries to specify for existing map links), just let me know, and thanks for the info on this one. Thank you ClayJar! Great Christmas present! Edited December 26, 2003 by Divine Link to comment
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