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Annotated Google maps broken?

Last month, JM and I gushed about annotated Google maps. At the time, I didn’t have an itch to scratch, nor any spare minutes, so I didn’t make one.

Today, I was going to try to map Razorback Ranch for Barb, who is in Arkansas now… but for some reason, it’s not working on either Mac or PC.

I had to update Firefox to 1.0.3, update Greasemonkey, and grab the latest map script, so the problem could be with any of those three or with Google Maps itself. (Maybe they somehow disabled this capacity? Somehow that seems un-Googlish. Maybe they just disabled Greasemonkey?)

I could make the marks show up on the right column, but the map didn’t center and zoom according to those numbers, nor did any of the icons go on the map. The “Display Points” link which used to appear, no longer does. I checked with JM’s examples, and they didn’t work either, so I don’t think it’s just my XML.

Ideas, anyone?

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Posted by pjm on April 26, 2005 2:18 PM |

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Google probably changed the format and/or function of the center point for zooming. I believe the centering broke around the same time the keyhole data was integrated, so it doesn’t surprise me in theleast that the underlying XML structure is now different. I just haven’t looked up the changes and implemented them.

Posted by: JM | April 26, 2005 2:38 PM

Thank you again so much!! I do not think I will be doing 16 on those trails but it will be nice to get off the roads. This morning I ran all on roads with sidewalks and crazy AR drivers all over the place in their emission-spewing trucks. Blah.

Posted by: Barb | April 26, 2005 3:11 PM

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