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17th Dec 2011 01:11 UTCWilliam W. Besse Expert
None of these sites would use the WGS84 format so I will talk no further on that one for this purpose. I did reach Manila, Philippines a couple of times when I put in the WGS84 for "Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, Trigo Mts, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA", but that was about it.
Google Maps, Google Earth, MSN Maps and Yahoo! Maps do not like the other formats either..."AS IS". The problem is the central colon (:). If this is replaced by a comma (,) then they work and you get where you want to go.
Well they don't all work alike. Yahoo! renders the Decimal Degrees but not the Degrees plus Decimal Minutes and the Decimal Degrees was off in location by a kilometer or more (Again using the Red Cloud). I would just ignore Yahoo! Maps.
My suggestion would be to format the Location Maps pages Latitude & Longitude with a comma.
Bill
17th Dec 2011 01:56 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
The WGS84 datum is used by Google Maps. It's one of the reasons why we've standardized on it.
I've changed the maps.php page to use a comma.
Jolyon
17th Dec 2011 02:51 UTCWilliam W. Besse Expert
You say that Google Maps uses the WGS84, but when I copy and paste it into Google Maps it does not work. Is it used on the back-end but not the front?
Bill
17th Dec 2011 02:57 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
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