[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9 Jun 2008 at 18:36, Robert Silverwood
<LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> 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.
When the point gets near the edge again, stop zooming and double click the point again. Zoom again
until the point is again near the edge and repeat.
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.
Not Millenia's Mapping Program. They can not fix what they do not own.
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.
And how would the program know which of the next ten locations you want to view? If you are viewing
a location on the east coast how can it possibly know you want to look at the west coast location next?
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.
Again see above. Not Millenia's Mapping Program.
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.
Contact Microsoft.
(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?)
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Gene Y.
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