My lat long was very accurate - I rounded it off to get it to a bit less so.

No, but you may have to reload the page to get the new coordinates. I doubt it, though.

I noticed you had 48.0 for the latitude. I got out an atlas and looked up Paris. It appears to lie almost completely within the range (48 deg, 40 min) and (49 deg) north latitude. I altered your latitude to put you at (48 deg, 50 min). You now look like you're in Paris relative to the river Google is showing.

I've had some questions from other people about map accuracy. So far, it's just been that we're not giving enough digits after the decimal point. One minute of degree at the equator is (very roughly) 1.16 miles. One minute of degree is just 0.0167 of a degree. That means if you enter 48.0 instead of 48.8333, you're off .8333 / 0.0167 = 50 minutes or (roughly) 50 miles.

Nope, shouldn't. Your data goes right into a relational database (PostgreSQL) and is available instantly. Each time the main page loads, it retrieves the list of sites from the server (using the new, spiffy, XmlHttpRequest object). In other words, you should see it right away, and if you don't, reloading the main page should fix it.

Let me know me if it doesn't. Browser differences continue to complicate things.

Geez, Matt. I'm pretty sure American High School Geography textbooks have some sort of copyright....

Mine was extremely accurate as well which is why I went with an appoximate location. You could have seen me practicing with tarp shelters in the backyard if had used my actual coords.

I put my coordinates on my municipal building, which is about a mile away. I used 5 places after the decimal and stuck it on the first try.

As far as browsers go, I'm using Opera and I had to clear my cookies to get my marker to show up.

Groo,

How do I erase the misleading indication. I tried to note my location was intentionally offset with a correction, but I ended up with two posts of name and flag. <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Thanks,

John

No prob. Try clicking on whichever of the markers you'd like to delete. Don't use the find feature for this... actually click on the little pin which corresponds to the site you're trying to get rid of. A bubble should pop up with your name, and two options.... "Edit this site" and "Delete this site". Click the delete link.

Let me know if it doesn't work, tell me which you want removed and I'll go in through the database side and do it.

Hey! Somebody got a blue pin! How did they do that? Can I have any color that I want? How about a nice woodland camo?

Matt has this thing about Cornflower Blue. I felt it was best not to ask, while backing away slowly...

Just for grins, I'm probably going to add a feature to select pin color. It's obviously not necessary, but this (believe it or not) is something I do for fun. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Stay tuned.