Posted by Brian Cryer on 06/13/06 08:19

"rfr" <rfrohrer@iw.net> wrote in message
news:vb2dnXskj4th2RPZnZ2dnUVZ_oOdnZ2d@prairiewave.com...
>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.
>
> 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.
>
> So, I got tired of discovering dead links and discontinued most of my use
> of maps except for those I made into images.
>
> 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?

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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