+rickrich Posted March 30, 2004 Share Posted March 30, 2004 (edited) When a new cache is approved, the map that is displayed is at a scale of roughly 1:65,000. This shows enough street detail that a printout of the cache page might be all a newbie needs in order to navigate to the cache... However, later the map on the cache page is replaced with a prettier MS map, but at a scale of roughly 1:175,000. This map shows a lot less street detail and is fairly useless to the newbie using the cache page printout to navigate... I'd like to see the scales of these two maps at least be made consistent. I can't see the reason why the scale of the map should change depending on the age of the cache. But better yet would be for the cache hider to have a choice of a few scales for the cache page map. Perhaps "urban, suburban, and rural", which translate to scales of 1:50k, 1:100k, and 1:200k, respectively. The cache hider could pick the scale that works best for his printable cache page. -Rick Edited March 30, 2004 by rickrich Link to comment
+bons Posted March 30, 2004 Share Posted March 30, 2004 (edited) Actually, I'd really like it of I could pick the scale of the map based on part of the "Make this page print-friendly" URL. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...&ID=17453&log=n&scale=8 Later on you could add in scale buttons for everyone else, but I want to be spoiled in advance. Edited March 30, 2004 by bons Link to comment
Jeremy Posted March 30, 2004 Share Posted March 30, 2004 When we get the final map data from our supplier for international maps, we'll be switching the maps to the ones on the "map it" page. At this time you'll be able to change the scale. Currently the maps generate in one format at one scale, so there isn't really much room to maneuver. We'll have more flexibility when the maps have been updated to GeoMicro's data. Link to comment
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