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Posted by rfr on 06/14/06 02:42
I am located in the USA in Minnesota.
It sure would be nice to have such a USA facility that would stay with the
same URL format for years.
I got tired of replacing these when they went dead, and tired of worrying
when the next batch would go dead.
I, also, notice that the mapping services I see all have dropped the ability
to manually set the center and mark the spot more closely.
"Brian Cryer" <brian.cryer@127.0.0.1.ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> "rfr" <rfrohrer@iw.net> wrote in message
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>>I manage a community web site and over the last eight years have tried a
>>number of mapping services to provide visitors maps to things like City
>>Parks, Recreational facilities, Churches, etc.
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>> These maps seemed to go dead often as the mapping service changes the
>> parameters that they use. To some extent I can see that their needs to
>> upgrade their services will change the parameters. But, it also causes
>> an un-announced discontinuation of services ot visitors to my web Site.
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>> So, I got tired of discovering dead links and discontinued most of my use
>> of maps except for those I made into images.
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>> Does anyone have any ideas of what mapping service one could use for a
>> community web site that wouldnt keep changing paramters and causing dead
>> links?
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> Which country are you in? I ask because in the UK I've found multimap
> (multimap.com) to be very reliable - I know they cover other countries as
> well, but I only have experience within the UK. I put together a site for
> my local church with a location map, that was well over 5 years ago and
> the link still works. No guarantees of course that multimap won't change
> their link parameters tomorrow or the day after that ...
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> Brian Cryer
> www.cryer.co.uk/brian
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