Updates
You might have noticed that we’ve made a few changes around the site. The main one is the introduction of the ‘Map’ tab above. This gives you a mini google maps interface with all of our ’sights’ plotted on it. You can also filter this map by category and do all the usual zooming in and out, pannning and switching between map and satellite view. If you would like to see a particular post’s location on the map just click the ‘Map This’ link and you’ll switch to the map view with the location marked. We’ve also given our thumbnail images a spruce up with a nice frame to help them stand out a bit more and generally tidied up a few of the other pages.
The inspiration and help for the map code came from the excellent ‘Google Maps Standalone‘ and Chicago Crime.
If you have any suggestions, comments or bugs please leave them as comments on this post. Thanks!
Update: There is a major bug on the map page when using Internet Explorer. The page loads but then throws up an error box and you then get the error page. I’m working on a fix for this, it is a known IE bug.
Update 2: The popup bubble is still not working in Safari, I think it’s something to do with the xslt file. The points not clearing when you select a different category bug has been fixed and the status text is a bit more helpful now.
Whenever I click on one of the Map links or tabs, I get the following error dialog:
”
Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://www.googlesightseeing.com/map/.
Operation aborted
”
However, the error doesn’t appear until after the map has been displayed, and it looks to be displayed correctly to me.
I’m using IE 6.0.2800… on XP Pro SP1.
Me too!
Thanks for the comments I’ll look into this later when I’m at a PC.
While we are talking about website updates. What about adding a category called “Updates” for posts that you add updates to such as on the May 23rd post about Incrediby Long Trains. Just my two cents.
Doesn’t work in firefox. And i get that error on IE also.
(and why not put the slidy bar on there? kinda annoying to click the plus sign to zoom in every time)
Basically it works (Firefox 1.0.4 WinXP) after a full reload (ctrl+shift+r).
Only thing is it doesn’t seem to cache images, so when switching the zoom level everything has to be reloaded everytime from the web. Caching seems to work in Chicago Crime, though. Any idea?
Uhm… now caching does seem to work… Nice
Another thing is the map dimensions doesn’t seem to match the container dimensions; this leads to some little misalignment issues.
If you subscribe to the RSS feed, when a post is updated, most feed readers will mark that post as such. Newsgator, for instance, will display the post as “unread”.
If you center the map on Hawaii and then choose “Hawaii” from the dropbox, the map gets recentered on the continental U.S.
I’m using Safari 2.0 (412) on OS X 10.4.1; when I choose a state (Indiana), I see two things:
1. Indiana gets a feature point added (IMS), but the other points don’t go away.
2. When I click on the feature point, the dialog bubble is blank.