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Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Just saw an article about http://maps.google.com/ -- tried it out and it works really well. I love the maps size and detail.

I sent them feedback and asked for them to add search by coords as that is the most important feature Wink

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towlebooth · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:13 am Post subject:

This is excellent! I too have requested searches by coord. Thanks for the link.

towlebooth · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:15 am Post subject:

Whoa - the arrow buttons work great too. The map doesn't have to reload the whole page to scroll.

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

I love the fact that you can drag the map around and it seems to display new sections as if it were a local application.

I just found a couple new parks just by dragging the map all over the place. You can also use + and - on the keyboard to zoom in and out.
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Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Buzzygirl · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:38 am Post subject:

This works slick-- I do like the way you can drag the map around. I used this to plot some directions today and it works better than Mapquest. I'm impressed. Now, if they could plot by GPS coordinates...

spinowner · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:53 am Post subject:

Definitely a step up from MapQuest. I'd like it if Groundspeak would link to this rather than MapQuest on the cache pages. I imagine there are contracts between the parties that would get in the way, but if it can be done it would be an improvement.
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Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Well it's a bit difficult when maps.google.com doesn't support mapping by coords. I suggest "sending feedback" and mentioning that.
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rickrich · Geocacher Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 673

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=minneapolis&ll=44.980225%2C-93.411024&spn=0.172119%2C0.29456

rickrich · Geocacher Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 673

Also, I will make maps.google.com a source for geo-map.

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

rickrich owns!
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Arcticabn · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:52 am Post subject:

I like it. I like the interface and I love what rickrich did already (you rock).

In addition to the search by coords I would like to see a map scale so that I can tell the actual distance across the map. I think that the map zoom is a little overkill. You zoom in so close you can loose all detail. But once I play with it I know just how far to zoom in so it's not really a big interface problem to me.
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Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=44.980225%2C-93.411024 brings rickrich's URL down even further.
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towlebooth · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject:

RINO SHAWN · Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:58 am Post subject:

Very cool mapping!!! I just tried a test: Went to Maporama.com...where I got the LAT /LONG coords for an address. (used Mpls Convention Center since I am going there this weekend) ....then I went to Map.Google and applied the coords in the format that SB showed.
Came up with a very nice map with much better detail than Mapquest or Maporama.

Thanks SB for showing us this cool site!!

Has anyone ever tried Maporama?? I like it ONLY for the times I have an address that I want to get GPS coordinates on. It's easy to use for that....

I wish that Google.maps had a similar format where it showed Lat/ Long at the bottom of the map screen like this.

Cool