p&k+a Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Would it be possible to add two new map links for caches located in Finland? I know this may not be very interesting for most users in this discussion area as the links should show up only for finnish caches, but maybe you can suggest where I should post my feature request, if not here. This has been discussed on nordic forums, but the discussion is in finnish only. First map is from a yellow-pages publisher Eniro. It's a very good street map for urban locations. Link should be of form: http://kartat.eniro.fi/query?what=map&maps...4232%3B60.17302 (7 in mapstate parameter is zoom-level and 1 is for bigger size map. ) Second is from the National Land Survey of Finland, and is a noncommercial, open service. It is a topographic map and best for off-road targets. Link should be of form: http://kansalaisen.karttapaikka.fi/kartanh...e=LATLON%3Aetrs or better example for not so urban location: http://kansalaisen.karttapaikka.fi/kartanh...e=LATLON%3Aetrs or a location where other maps are useless: http://kansalaisen.karttapaikka.fi/kartanh...e=LATLON%3Aetrs (just to show you the motivation behind this) Both maps use dd.dddd WGS84 coordinates in the addresses above, and cover entire Finland. Quality of the current maps (the default links) does not get even close to the quality of these for locations in Finland. Geocaching.com maps are completely useless in Finland, MapQuest is ok only for urban locations, Yahoo is poor and MS also. Link to comment
Jeremy Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Sure. Can you give me some text I can use for each option? For Online Maps: Link #1 Link #2 Thanks! Link to comment
p&k+a Posted April 13, 2005 Author Share Posted April 13, 2005 Great! I think that "Eniro.fi street map" and "Karttapaikka.fi topographic map" .. would be the most describing and best identifying link texts for these two. Link to comment
Jeremy Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Thanks! I'll try and insert it into the next release of code on the site. Honestly it shouldn't be hardcoded but that's how it is right now Link to comment
p&k+a Posted April 13, 2005 Author Share Posted April 13, 2005 Thank you, I'm looking forward to it! Link to comment
+VesaK Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 Would it be possible to add two new map links for caches located in Finland? Please make that Finland and Aland Isles, as both maps cover also Aland, which is listed as a separate country in GC.com but in fact is a province of Finland. Link to comment
+Suurnesu Posted December 9, 2006 Share Posted December 9, 2006 Would it be possible to get online map links to Karttapaikka and Eniro.fi street map also in the "View Waypoint Details" page in Finnish caches. See the discussion above. Kind regards, Suurnesu, Finland Link to comment
+ekhoc Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 Would it be possible to get online map links to Karttapaikka and Eniro.fi street map also in the "View Waypoint Details" page in Finnish caches. Hi, any news about the Child waypoint map links? Not there yet... Link to comment
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