Why Mapblast

[XMarksTheSpot]

geocaching.com pushes Mapblast.com as the mapping tool to use. With Mapblast, I don't see a way to find a location by entering Latitude and Longitude. Am I missing something? I don't see how Mapblast is helpful. Please explain.

 

I found that Mapquest.com allows you to search by Latitude and Longitude.

 

Thanks, in advance for your help!

[+welch]

Let me start by saying that Im confused

Now, we all knew this day would come, no one panic

 

Actually when I click on the map on a cache page I'm taken to MapQuest, isn't it the same for you??

 

Anyways, I'm not sure of the exact reason why this site uses one instead of the other. But if one more than the other use the one YOU like, No ones twisting your arm are they?

 

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Originally posted by XMarksTheSpot:

geocaching.com pushes Mapblast.com as the mapping tool to use. With Mapblast, I don't see a way to find a location by entering Latitude and Longitude. Am I missing something? I don't see how Mapblast is helpful. Please explain.

 

I found that Mapquest.com allows you to search by Latitude and Longitude.

 

Thanks, in advance for your help!

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[+hoovman]

Every cache page I look at says (just like welsh said):

 

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For online maps...

MapQuest Maps (BEST)

Topo Zone - topographical maps

(Site uses a different datum so coordinates may be off)

Microsoft Terra Server - satellite photos

Yahoo! Maps

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and when you click on "MapQuest Maps", it takes me to a MapQuest.com map.

 

Not many cachers use mapblast because, like you said XMarksTheSpot, it doesn't accept lat/long anymore: see

this thread and this one.

 

Why doesn't UBB have or some other way to do underline???

 

[+The Leprechauns]

Welch and Hoovman, I'll bet that XMarksTheSpot went to the Guide to Finding a Cache page, which is where a new visitor OUGHT to be reading. That page still has an outdated reference to MapBlast and no mention of MapQuest as an online map source. Each cache page USED to have a link to MapBlast. Hopefully that page will be updated so it doesn't confuse new visitors.

 

XMarksTheSpot - welcome to the fun! Use MapQuest, TopoZone or mapping software to serve your map needs.

 

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[+sbell111]

Lep and Welch-

 

You guys rock. Lep quickly came up with what was going on, but Lep helped me out. Believe it or not, I never realized that I could click on the map to go to MapQuest. I've always used the link to the left. Clicking on the map will save me a few nanoseconds.

 

Thanks.

 

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

[+welch]

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Originally posted by The Leprechauns:

Hopefully that page will be updated so it doesn't confuse new visitors.

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Or me

 

[XMarksTheSpot]

Lep, you hit the nail on the head. I read it in "Finding your first Cache" (which is what I just got back from doing). I think I saw it in a few other spot too but I can't find them now.

 

I did not know you could click on the Cache map to bring up Mapquest. That was the other thing that confused me a little. The map on the Cache description is a Microsoft Mappoint map.

 

Thanks to all for helping out a Newbie!

[XMarksTheSpot]

Does Mappoint allow you to enter latitude and Longitude? If so, how? I haven't been able to figure out how to do it it.