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Locations are not accurrate

Thread began 11/24/2009 1:24 pm by info380630 | Last modified 11/25/2009 9:02 am by Ray Borduin | 2763 views | 6 replies |

info380630

Locations are not accurrate

Hi. Purchased this yesterday and am not having a lot of luck with it. It all integrates fine etc... But my problem is with location accuracy.

If I go to Google Maps and enter a UK postcode, Google Maps takes me to the exact location I need. However, if I do the same with the Pro Maps for Google plug-in, it takes me to a location miles away.

Why?

Can anyone please suggest a way of getting a more accurate result?

This is the map I trying to resolve... tariff.html

Thanks, Dave

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neilo

These Google Maps seem to have trouble with British post codes - they don't always like there to be a space in the middle.

It also seems to have its own idea about what the 'City' and 'State' should be. Sometimes you have to experiment with nearest (recognisable-by-google) large town or county.

You seem to have something working with coordinates.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

The geocoder used by the Google Map API is not the same one used by maps.google.com and can sometimes show different points.

The most exact way to show a point on the map is to use coordinates.

You can find coordinates for address by going to maps.google.com and searching for your address. Then add the following in the address bar:
javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));


this will bring up a javasscript alert containing the latitude and longitude for the address, you can use these in pro Maps

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info380630

Hmmm

Yeah I don't mind having to use co-ordinates, but this doesn't look fantastic when my clients address isn't showing in the pop-up balloon. Is there anyway I can use co-ordinates but show the address? Or even turn the pop-up balloon off and just have the location marker?

Would help if this 'quirk' was made a bit clearer to potential buyers before they purchase something that doesn't really 'do what it says on the tin'!!

ALSO - I added a new API key for this website, but there's still a pop-up warning window when I navigate to the page with the map on... Why is this??

tariff.html

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neilo

Hiya Dave,

Try this:

Enter the coordinates in the googleMaps as you have already done. (54.83164419215485 -4.216175079345703)

Open file googleJavascript/wagmp_map_x.php (x = whatever number your map is)

Find the line (somewhere around line 150-152):

infowindowtext: '<span style="font: 12px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><?php echo str_replace("'", "\'", "<strong>Coordinates:</strong><br />(54.83164419215485, -4.216175079345703)"); ?></span>',


Change it to:

infowindowtext: '<span style="font: 12px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Address line 1<br />Address Line 2<br />Address Line Etc<br />Your Postcode</span>',


That should locate using the coordinates, but show the address you want it display.

Looks like this

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neilo

As regards the API key, did you re-upload your page to your remote site with the new key?

Otherwise, sign up for a new key (enter the url of the site it's going on, and click 'generate').

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

You still seem to have two sets of map code on the page... I see:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=ABQIAAAA-rtLQHPRNrlmLPDivEApSRSgzrqBtI62pKisAo2D57_sV01LOhR21G_4e1K-loGwT3eW7_mTKYd1CQ">/*wagmp*/</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="google_javascript/wagmp_map_2.js">/*wagmp*/</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=ABQIAAAA-rtLQHPRNrlmLPDivEApSRRy1bzJLjlIWZ_W2QLXEtbB-K5XrBR0jkR0NlNA-nojx0YYhAXiEA775Q">/*wagmp*/</script>


most likely one of them should be removed because it is not used and has an incorrect api key... that will fix the api key issue.

Are you getting your data points from a recordset? If not you can simply type new text for the info window that has the full address even though you use coordinates to display the location.

If you are using a recordset, then you could add a field to the table to contain the info window text and manually replace it.

Also you could turn off the info window by removing the line of code that opens it... if you comment out the lines of code that include: .openInfoWindowHtml

that would do the trick to keep them from opening. You can also just update the info window text direclty in the code on the line that begins with:

infowindowtext:

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