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How do I ensure I get the correct location in Google maps in a generated report?
For example, I have the location Amesbury in Wiltshire. In GenoPro, I have this set as Place Name: Amesbury Place Category: Town City: Amesbury County: Wiltshire Country: England but Google maps shows me some location in the USA. If I change the city to Salisbury, it then points to Salisbury, UK Setting the lat/long does not correct the problem. Similarly, changing the country to UK has no effect. Neither do postcodes have any effect This problem occurs for many places. Thanks in advance for your help.
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Google Maps API seems to think America first. I have seen it find obscure places in Canada but get other places completely wrong. The best way is to insert latitude/longitude in the place properties. I use Streetmap.co.uk to find a place and this has an option beneath the map to get coordinates. These can then be copied and pasted into GenoPro. Bit of a nuisance but if you link other places to parent places this will reduce the number needed.
I think that the Google API uses different gazetteer for places from Google Earth
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Thanks for your reply.
Before posting my original message, I tried inserting lat/long coordinates, but it didn't seem to work. I'll have another try.
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Yes, setting lat/long now works. Perhaps I didn't have sufficient resolution in the numbers I entered before.
Thanks.
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CW (04-May-2011)
How do I ensure I get the correct location in Google maps in a generated report? For example, I have the location Amesbury in Wiltshire. In GenoPro, I have this set as Place Name: Amesbury Place Category: Town City: Amesbury County: Wiltshire Country: England but Google maps shows me some location in the USA. If I change the city to Salisbury, it then points to Salisbury, UK Setting the lat/long does not correct the problem. Similarly, changing the country to UK has no effect. Neither do postcodes have any effect
On investigating this issue I discovered a bug in the code whereby only the 1st component of the address was being passed to the Google Mpas API. I have published a revised skin that I believe corrects this problem.
'lego audio video erro ergo disco' or "I read, I listen, I watch, I make mistakes, therefore I learn"
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