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BigJim 6 years, 4 months ago.
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Is anyone else having an issue with the LCG map? Is this Googlemaps?
This is being worked on 🙂
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Bad timing. I tried to show someone who has never participated in the LCG, but couldn’t get the map to load. Oh well.
Time to make the change to Leaflet?
Leaflet?
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Leaflet?
Bob,
Leaflet is a very popular open-source mapping tool. I think it would be a great replacement to the googlemaps that is currently being used on the website.
Here is a link for your information: https://leafletjs.com/
Maybe the webmaster could take the information provided in the link and run with it?
Sorry I thought I had responded to Bobs question and addressed it. Must of never hit submit haha. Fix will be underway, just haven’t gotten the time available to develop the new solution.
Yes sorry, I have already been made aware of the issues with the LCG map. Current/past map is actually an auto-generated output from GSAK when the new LCG list is created. Sadly with the changes Google has done, this appears to of finally hit its final working point with the GSAK export. (I did not know until this point that was how that map was being generated)
Sadly I haven’t gotten around to developing a fix yet that can make it easy on the admin side (IE not having to generate a map and upload it) and as you already suggested will utilize some of the benefits of leaflet which I have also previously used with other applications.
Leaflet is an open-source library(aka a tool) to make it easier(not always easy but easier) on the developer to be able to utilize development against various map layers (ie google maps, google satellite, apple maps, openstreetmaps, bing maps, mapbox, mapquest, arcgis, thunderforest and many more) and how to you the user interact with them(ie zooming both on the computer and mobile, adding information to the map like pins, borders, highlight areas, and more) With leaflet, instead of having to develop specific commands that are different for google vs openstreet vs apple vs bing we can use the library and create just one command and it will do the heavy lifting for me for all the defined maps. Or it can add features or simplify how to handle zooming events or more. Of course there is more to it than that but hopefully it gives you an idea on how something like that can work.
Thank you for the reply Admin. It is good to hear that steps are being taken toward a fix.
Have you had a chance to visit the forum on gsak.net regarding this issue? There are some very helpful individuals here that reply very quickly to any questions one would post. There may be some advice they can given regarding the API key that would allow for the WGA’s website to continue using googlemaps? I recently posted some questions on the GSAK forums for help in populating a statewide database of caches with GSAK. Because of the restrictions from Groundspeak and GSAK on daily download limits, I needed to try to figure out a way to get the state’s ~30,000 caches onto one list and get around those limits.
It took a few days and advice from forum regulars, but that datebase is built now and I am able to filter from it. The one thing I was trying to gain by doing this is opening up more possibilities for the LCG. If I set a filter for caches “last found on or before” today’s date, the result is just over 5000 caches. So, about 17% of the state’s caches have not been found for a year or better.
Is anyone else having problems submitting reports?
Try again.
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