Dave, Why don't you complain to Microsoft? VE is their product.
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ New Blog: Free Contacts Database for use with Open Office http://www.fergys.co.uk View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:42:00 +0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] zooming to pins in maps > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > > On 9 Jun 2008 at 18:36, Robert Silverwood > wrote: > >> To Zoom continuously, click and hold the cursor over the + or - buttons. > > It doesn't really work - most of my relatives have points in UK & Australia > so the map > starts off showing most of the world. If I just click & hold on the + button > I end up half > way between Australia & the UK. If I double-click on a point first it centres > it - > apparently. However, if I then click & hold on the + button I find my desired > point wasn't > centred exactly so it soon disappears off the edge before I get down to > street level, > meaning a lot of manual mucking around. > > A simple zoom box would fix all of this. It is normally achieved by starting > at 1 corner of > where you want to look, then drag to the other corner, with the display > zooming to suit > once the button is released. > > The other problem is once you are zoomed into a point & want to look at a > different > point for the same person. The logical method would be to just click or > double-click on > the desired item in the list on the left side, which should result in the map > on the right > side moving to place the new location in the centre - no need to change the > zoom > width - just pan to the new location. At the moment to go from my > great-grandfather's > birth place to his death place requires 14 single zoom out clicks (or hold & > hope) then > 14 zoom in double-clicks (or hold & hope & continually re-adjust). I can't > see any > reason for this amount of work for what should be a double-click maximum. > > Is there a place for reporting suggestions officially? As I write mapping > applications for > a living I guess I am a bit pedantic about usability, but definitely there is > room for > improvement. > > (Having Google Earth instead of Virtual Earth would be the best start - Kuala > Lumpur - > where my daughter was born - in Virtual Earth shows up with a dot on the map > for > Ampang which is the suburb of several hundred thousand people where we live. > Actually it appears as 2 different dots about 3kms from each other, both > saying > "Ampang". In Google Earth Ampang shows up with street level mapping & very > clear > detail of my house and the nearby hospital. Is there anywhere in the world > where > Virtual Earth has better maps than Google Earth?) > > Dave > _________________________________________________________________ Great deals on almost anything at eBay.co.uk. Search, bid, find and win on eBay today! http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000004ukm/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
