You do realize of course, Millennia has absolutely no control over Virtual Earth. Legacy is merely providing a "link" to a mapping tool. Any complaints about how virtual earth works needs to be addressed to Microsoft. Microsoft is the only one who has control over the inaccuracies. Ron Bernier sent from my Verizon BlackBerry
----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Taylor <doit4...@yahoo.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> Sent: Sun Sep 19 12:21:52 2010 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 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
