Ron, I have yet to find a location which I have set being over-ridden by the mapping system. You need to contact Microsoft re the pin-positioning determined by Virtual Earth.
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -------------------------------------------------- From: "Ron Taylor" <doit4...@yahoo.com> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 5:21 PM To: <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Places > This "mapping" problem needs to be addressed (pun intended). I have found > many locations that are found with Virtual Earth to be inaccurate. Your > example of a town out-to-sea is a good one. I am especially troubled when > a location that has been accurately determined by a call to the GEO > database is allowed to be overwritten by a find on Virtual Earth which is > different and wrong. If a location has "L" in the L column to indicate > that it has been looked-up in the GEO database, then when Virtual Earth > finds it, there should at least be a question whether the L should be > changed to a V and the Virtual Earth information allowed to replace the > GEO database info. The same logic should probably apply when a GEO > database lookup wants to overwrite info from Virtual Earth. Even if the > user has hand-entered a location's coordinates, that info should not be > replaced automatically by a Virtual Earth or GEO database lookup. > > It would be very interesting to see a comparison of a locations list that > is all sync'ed with GEO database versus the same list sync'ed with Virtual > Earth and compute the difference in distance between the same locations. > > Try doing a GEO database lookup on a location that already has V in column > L and see if you can get the program to put L in that column. > > Last point on this mapping. When the program does find a location and > identifies it on the map with a balloon...the point of the balloon should > indicate the coordinates and not the center of the balloon. It would also > help to have the balloon be translucent so items it covers could be > viewed. > > Ron Taylor Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
