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Hello FS I am trying an experiment

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AND ENTRY A8778874 No Subject TRY THE LINKS


I am trying to add a dimention to entries by providing access to location maps your opinipon is as always helpful

please comment

A87788740 SORRY A TYPO

Interesting, this could be very handy for historical and geographic entries.

How did you find your coordinates?

I tried playing in my working entry A87755755, I put in a link for 'Mariel' (this was the original template for my Entry now in Peer Review). I just used the google search function, you just have to replace all the '&' with '&' but I'm sure already knew that. I only put in the one link for now, the footnote still works!

I noticed your link to the Black sea was a rather small scale showing a large area, while most of the others were zoomed in on a small area, I only checked a few places.

Let me know your thoughts. I won't do anything publicly without hearing from you.

FS

1 open googlemaps go to the place you want to mark.
2 place mouse pointer on the point you want to mark.
3 RIGHT CLICK on that point a dropdon menue appears choose option "WHATS HERE?"
4 A green arrow will be placed where you clicked and a map ref will appear in the search box at the top of the page.
5 cut n paste the ref into the text or link as required.

the size of nthe map conforms with the zoom you used if you zoom in on the mak uou will get a close up. if you wanthem to look the same set all maps to the same zoom setting. mylink is thus and seems robust Ravenna">http://maps.google.com/maps?q=44.471154,12.282858">Ravenna 44.471154,12.282858 replace this with your map ref Ravenna and replace this with your text Gnomon was king enough to send this link but I cant get to work perhaps you can. it is on this thread http://www.h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/brunel/F52852?thread=8300815&show=20&skip=0#pi12 ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50.73...8&sspn=42.987658,93.076172&t=m&z=11 If you're putting that link in a conversation, you should be able to just paste it in. If you want it in an entry, you'll need to change each ampersand to & (an ampersand followed by the letters "amp" and a semicolon). It's a bit fiddly, but not too hard. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=50.73124,1.599026&hl=en&ll=50.737324,1.604004&spn=0.269429,0.727158&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=42.987658,93.076172&t=m&z=11 good luck

try this zoom levels I hope

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do you see what I ment

the did not work that seems to stuff that theory

though 2 were of a different zoom level the effect seems random dependent up on the zoom level set


back to the drawing board

Was playing a bit myself I put in a link to where the border crossing was, (key word 'merged' in the Boarder Crossing' Section) with the arrow at the point I wanted people to see and zoomed out to view the entire area with the arrow up top. The link is a close-up of the arrow, right next to a reference to 'Last Chance Bar and Package'. If you put the little man in the road you can read the sign 'Last Chance Saloon' and if you turn him you can see the turn lane for the north causeway
This will take some playing with, I would like more control. The word search might work better as the link button on the lefty seems to have better zoom control.

FS

so you like the idea I hope


ps
http://www.boatsafe.com/tools/horizon.htm
a little boat related gizmo for you

Handy link Bob,

The real secret is also knowing the height of the object you are watching, add the two together, - say 6 feet to your eye on the deck of a small boat and the lamp of an 80foot lighthouse, when the light begins to dip over the horizon you know your distance

10.8 NM
or
12 a half land miles, the smaller decimals aren't all that important

The map idea is great as long as there aren't not too many pitfalls, broken links copyright law and we can get a reliable method in place. I don't think any of these are a problem.

FS

would google be copyright how do we find out

glad you find the link handy

As I said I don't think copyright is a problem, as we are redirecting to their site, not stealing images. It might be worth doing a bit of a search on google itself to see if the have a faq's page or fair-use statement.

The thought just crossed my mind, and it is probably worth a short search. I will leave that in your hands, although I would not ask too many question just yet.



FS

nuff

fair enough old english joke

I will take your advice on that thanks for your opinion

Hi Bob;

Just tried another option

I pulled up a map of the Florida Keys from Homestead FL To Havana Cuba, put it into 'satellite view'
clicked the 'link' button in the upper right of the dialogue box and chose 'short url'. It seems to give the exact view I wanted.

Caution do not use the 'paste HTML to embed in website' That link contains '<' and '>' That makes hootoo think you are a robot, also they do not work in Guide ML.

The 'short url' also seems to avoid the ampersand, although I only tried 1 link so-far.

The image is linked to 'The conch Republic' in my opening of my working entry.



FS

I shal have a look it sounds good

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=212120568458566679149.0004d8644e46dd206c465&msa=0&ll=50.725301,-1.554337&spn=0.000971,0.002642


please look at mark 2 project son of map link.

PS hope the link works you are the guni pig

The link takes me to Keyhaven Marsh Zoomed into 'Placemark 2, when I zoom out I can see I am on the north bank of the Solent between Freshwater and Yarmouth (are you sure Bluebottle didn't put you up to this)



FS

Had to paste it into my browser, just for the record.

No just bhappened that way an entry I am working on what do you think

Try this link mk 2

A map of the keyhaven walks.

Oops I was working on this while you were doing that. let me before I forget my thought;

Just for fun I added another link in my line about Texas Independence, to the map of the Alamo, this time I zoomed in closer and used the short url option in the map mode.

We are probably better off to link in map mode and let the users with sufficient speed and bandwidth switch to satellite if they want to.



FS