Folks -
My issue is not about which part of the balloon points where. I am very
familiar with Microsoft VirtualEarth and use it regularly.. I am well aware
of how to resolve the coordinates. The problem is that while using the Map
my Family feature, many of the locations listed in the box on the left-hand
side of the screen had the balloons placed hundreds of miles from the actual
location. This occurred with some families and not with others. The fact
that hundreds of locations were affected told me something was amiss. Jack
Earnshaw's response (see below) caused me to take another look at some of
the families - and he hit the nail on the head regarding unresolved
locations. All it takes is one location with a ? and some of the other
locations are adversely affected. For example I am now looking at a family
with 16 locations in the left-hand box. The top location has a ? in the Lat
column. When I highlight Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the box the active balloon
is on Hot Springs, South Dakota. Mousing over the balloon brings up the
Milwaukee location with residence date. The active balloon for Hot Springs,
SD, is in New York. The active balloon for Brooklyn, Windham County,
Connecticut is in the middle of South Dakota. Again mousing over it brings
up Brooklyn and a 1847 marriage. I don't believe this is a Microsoft
problem since the balloons are all placed properly at locations listed in
the left-hand box. It would appear that Legacy is assigning the family
events to the wrong places when Microsoft is unable to verify one or more of
the locations. I now know how to rectify this situation.
Thanks, Jack, for helping me resolve the issue. And, thanks to the others
who have responded.
Kay
"I reported this as a bug some time ago but got back the "unable to
reproduce
the problem" answer.
What I was finding was that choosing an individual and then clicking the
Mapping button brought up the correct list of locations and then it tried to
resolve on the map all those places that hadn't yet been resolved. This is
where it went wrong. The places it picked all were within the list of
locations on the left, BUT the coordinates and balloon were allocated to the
wrong place. E.g. if there were 4 locations A, B, C and D and that B, C and
D had not been "resolved" before i.e. placed on the map then it seemed to
place location B at the point on the map for location C, similarly for
location C it might go to the place on the map for location D. This didn't
always happen, but very frequently. Now I try to ensure that the places have
been resolved properly before I go to mapping. But I will always go down the
list to make sure that the locations are shown at the correct place on the
map. Going to the location list and getting places resolved that way seems
to be OK, it is only when this occurs "on the fly" by using the Mapping
button"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Fry" <mike...@iafrica.com>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Fw: Problem with Mapping - Follow-up
Bert van Kootwijk wrote:
One of the reasons can be that the programmers in their wisdom had
decided that the center of the balloon indicates the correct spot. As the
balloon has a point people think that the point of the balloon points to
the correct spot. That is normal behaviour, I think. I complained many
times about this problem. As far as I know the staff and programmers
donot think it is worth to change the indicated spot from the center of
the balloon to the point of the pin.
In my opinion this is a very major bug, but they think else.
Er no, Bert! That's a Microsoft VirtualEarth bug! All the API allows the
programmers to do is say they want a balloon at a specific point on the
map. VitualEarth actually displays the balloon in what it thinks is the
correct position on the map.
The points are based on latitude and longitude co-ordinates in the Legacy
Location list entries. I would suggest that Kay checks that her
co-ordinates are correct before lambasting the program.
--
Regards,
Mike Fry
Johannesburg.
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