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Subject: Re: Location on FindU
From: Derek Koonce <derek@dkoonce.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 19:24:00 -0800
X-Message-Number: 18
Check the coordinate system. Are you running WGS84 or NAD27? This could
you you off from the location.
Derek.
KE6JTP
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Subject: Findu problems?
From: Tyler Griffiths <n7uwx@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:43:53 -0700
X-Message-Number: 19
I have been looking at locations on findu.com and am getting lots of "Error:
Improper settings" insted of maps.
Some maps show up and some not.
Any idea what is up?
Tyler N7UWX
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Subject: Re: Location on FindU
From: "Matt Werner" <kb0kqa@arrl.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 21:44:58 -0600
X-Message-Number: 20
>My location on the FindU site shows me a couple miles from my true
>coordinates. The following shows me near Fawn road but I live on 5th St in
>downtown (village) Dresden.
>
>http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=KC8BEW
Maybe I'm missing something here...
Findu shows that it has received 4 packets from you, none containing a
lat/long location.
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/raw.cgi?call=KC8BEW
KC8BEW>CQ,RS0ISS-3*,EN80XC,qAo,KG4JPL-7::N4JCV : QSL? DE MATT
KC8BEW>CQ,RS0ISS-3*,EN80XC,qAo,KG4JPL-7::NG9Y : QSL? DE MATT
KC8BEW>CQ,RS0ISS-3*,EN80XC,qAo,KG4JPL-7:>EN80xc MATT IN DRESDEN, OH
KC8BEW>CQ,RS0ISS-3*,EN80XC,qAo,KG4JPL-7::WB9KMD : QSL? DE MATT
>I have checked it other sites and programs and I am shown at my correct
>location. Just curious as to the position change.
Where else did you check it? I looked at aprsworld.com and it shows a odd
position there too...
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Subject: What the heck happened to Canada?
From: Bruce & Leigh Coates <Bruce.Coates@Sasktel.Net>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 21:54:28 -0600
X-Message-Number: 21
Hi.
Just a few minutes ago I noticed that maps generated from MapBlast such as
Findu and the mapping plugins for UI-View show everything outside the US as
completely blank. pcsat.findu.com is a good example of what things look
like. Anyone have any idea what's happening?
In the middle of ... nowhere ...
73
Bruce - VE5BNC
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Subject: Re: What the heck happened to Canada?
From: Steve Dimse <k4hg@tapr.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:19:32 -0500
X-Message-Number: 22
On 2/3/04 at 9:54 PM Bruce & Leigh Coates <Bruce.Coates@Sasktel.Net>sent:
>Just a few minutes ago I noticed that maps generated from MapBlast such as
>Findu and the mapping plugins for UI-View show everything outside the US as
>completely blank. pcsat.findu.com is a good example of what things look
>like. Anyone have any idea what's happening?
>
>In the middle of ... nowhere ...
Finally happened.
For those that do not know, findU does not generate most maps, only a URL
which your browser requests from MapBlast.
The evil empire bought MapBlast about 18 months ago, and shortly thereafter
encrypted the map URL on mapblast.com, referring everything else to the
microsoft mapping site. However, the old mapbast server was alive and well
on vicinity.com, which was the parent of mapblast.
Since then I have been expecting this day, but unfortunately there is no
decent alternative. There are some US sites that could be used, but more
than a third of findU.com's users are from outside the US, and there is not
free alternative. A commercial service to provide the 8 million maps a
month findU uses will cost $250k/yr, obviously not oing to happepr.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:27:43 -0500
X-Message-Number: 24
On 2/3/04 at 11:19 PM Steve Dimse <k4hg@tapr.org>sent:
>Finally happened.
Perhaps I spoke too soon, hitting reload a few times results in a map about
one time out of ten, so maybe there is just a loading issue on the
server...
Steve K4HG
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