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Post by leek » 09 April 03 11:44 am

:D Just thought I'd share this with you all... :D <br><br>

I have been experimenting with http://multimap.com which appears to be a great source of detailed maps for most of the world... <br><br>

Usually its pretty good, even if the Australian map data is a little dated. However, this time, it really got confused when I zoomed in on Sydney... <br>

This is the map I got: <br>



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Seconds later it was OK again... Weird!!!

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Post by Horus » 09 April 03 1:36 pm

I always found Sydney a difficult place to drive around, no wonder I kept getting lost :)

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Post by The Ginger Loon » 09 April 03 5:19 pm

Any wonder I keep running late for work. I don't know which Epping Rd to drive down... :?

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Post by Team Piggy » 09 April 03 8:23 pm

Kinda looks like your PC had a brain fart and used all its memory up drawing the map, and you maybe scrolled at the same time causing a multi wipe effect..
We've all seen this at one time or another..

Windows to thank for this great effect !

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Post by Papa Bear_Left » 09 April 03 8:47 pm

The Ginger Loon wrote:I don't know which Epping Rd to drive down... :?
Well, get an epping Sydways!

(and watch your epping language. This is a public forum.)

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Post by Two Goth Geeks » 09 April 03 10:39 pm

weirdo

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Post by swampgecko » 09 April 03 11:22 pm

Looks like the last time you gave me directions to one of your caches Leek :twisted: :wink:

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Post by The Rats » 10 April 03 10:13 pm

Hi John,

I had a look at this site was impressed with its level of detail..... Have you worked out how to enter coordinates or have you beenplaying with the X and Y figures ???

Dave :o :o :o

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Usage of multimap to plot caches...

Post by leek » 12 April 03 2:16 am

Hi Rats & everyone else...<br><br>

After much trial and error, I have managed to figure out how to plot caches on a map with http://Multimap.com...<br><br>

Use the link: http://multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lon= ... height=600 and substitute the lat/lon coordinates of your choosing in the format DD.ddddd i.e. degrees and decimals of degrees...<br><br>

So far, I haven't been able to get a map bigger than 700x600 pixels... the site seems to have some protection against this... I'm sure that people who are more savvy than I will be able to figure out a way of improving this... <br><br>

To those of you who missed the other messages.... this site provides street/track level mapping for the whole of Australia (yes... even outside the cities)... Well worth a look...<br><br>

Any chance we can automate this within Cheatisearch Ideology???? Pretty please???? :)<br><br>

p.s. I originally found this site thanks to someone who calls themself Salam Pax - an Iraqi living in Baghdad who was reporting his / her view of the war from the inside... My thanks to him/her and I hope that he/she is still safe and well... See http://dearraed.blogspot.com/ for further details...

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Post by Team Geo-Nads » 12 April 03 3:36 pm

Thanks Leek, it works in the bush to. It will bring up street level maps in country towns

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Post by Hounddog » 17 April 03 3:07 am

Scary to think we have passed along every one of the roads in your distorted map while searching for geocaches. The general pattern is what my backtrack record often looks like after reaching a typical ground zero.

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Post by ideology » 22 April 03 8:06 am

thanks for the pointer
we've added multimap support in the new search engine
details in this thread

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