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2009-12-16
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Hi guys,
please forgive me my double post, but my other thread is getting no love and I think actually this thread is the correct place to ask.
I noticed, that local search with maemap (bottom left corner in the ui) does not return all results, compared to a local search with google.maps. I am missing the little red dots, only the sponsored links (with letters) appear. Very good to see, if you search for example for "bar" near frankfurt (bar loc: Frankfurt, Germany). How can I get all results with maemap? Or is it only me?
Thank you,
ste
Last edited by STE; 2009-12-16 at 16:49.
please forgive me my double post, but my other thread is getting no love and I think actually this thread is the correct place to ask.
I noticed, that local search with maemap (bottom left corner in the ui) does not return all results, compared to a local search with google.maps. I am missing the little red dots, only the sponsored links (with letters) appear. Very good to see, if you search for example for "bar" near frankfurt (bar loc: Frankfurt, Germany). How can I get all results with maemap? Or is it only me?
Thank you,
ste
Last edited by STE; 2009-12-16 at 16:49.
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2009-12-16
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Thanks for the feedback and good test case, will look into it.
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2009-12-16
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I have never been able to get directions to any address by entering it in the right field. I always get "Location not found: 602". (However searching for both addresses separately in the left field works fine).
The instructions on the first page have some kind of a character set problem, because all I see is "Just start typing and hit <broken icon> to search a place". The broken icon looks like two underscores on top of each other, but the upper one is actually as high up as possible. On a desktop computer it does look like the enter -symbol.
The site takes a LONG time to respond sometimes - up to a minute, both on a desktop computer and on the N900. (From Finland).
I think the effort is awesome though, so thanks for working on this!
The instructions on the first page have some kind of a character set problem, because all I see is "Just start typing and hit <broken icon> to search a place". The broken icon looks like two underscores on top of each other, but the upper one is actually as high up as possible. On a desktop computer it does look like the enter -symbol.
The site takes a LONG time to respond sometimes - up to a minute, both on a desktop computer and on the N900. (From Finland).
I think the effort is awesome though, so thanks for working on this!
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2009-12-16
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Originally Posted by STE
Ok, I spent most of my free evening on that:
I noticed, that local search with maemap (bottom left corner in the ui) does not return all results, compared to a local search with google.maps. I am missing the little red dots, only the sponsored links (with letters) appear. Very good to see, if you search for example for "bar" near frankfurt (bar loc: Frankfurt, Germany). How can I get all results with maemap? Or is it only me?
Unfortunately, it is NOT possible. I did not find any API options to improve the behaviour and therefore guess that it is specific to their implementation. Or because our screen/map size is quite small.
What I achieved: disabled the auto-display/jump to the first search result.
BTW: What you see are not sponsored links (these ads appear ABOVE the search results), but normal local search results.
Sorry for not having better news
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2009-12-16
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Originally Posted by jaysire
For directions, try to add some additional information on the right, e.g."fi" for your finnish towns.
I have never been able to get directions to any address by entering it in the right field. I always get "Location not found: 602". (However searching for both addresses separately in the left field works fine).
The instructions on the first page have some kind of a character set problem, because all I see is "Just start typing and hit <broken icon> to search a place". The broken icon looks like two underscores on top of each other, but the upper one is actually as high up as possible. On a desktop computer it does look like the enter -symbol.
The site takes a LONG time to respond sometimes - up to a minute, both on a desktop computer and on the N900. (From Finland).
I've now fixed the character set problem by replacing the existing (n900-broken) unicode ENTER symbol with a plain "ENTER" string.
If the site is slow, this might also be a problem of google (maemaps must load api js code from them). However, the page gets cached in the browser (do a Ctrl-R to really reload it and get the latest version, e.g. test with the ENTER display). Also, maeMaps is (apart from the google js code) completely self-contained. This means you can also save it in e.g. MyDocs and the load/bookmark from there.
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2009-12-17
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Originally Posted by twaelti
Thanks for investigating the matter. What is the difference between the two types? Unfortunately the results without letters are mostly the cool places
Ok, I spent most of my free evening on that:
Unfortunately, it is NOT possible. I did not find any API options to improve the behaviour and therefore guess that it is specific to their implementation. Or because our screen/map size is quite small.
What I achieved: disabled the auto-display/jump to the first search result.
BTW: What you see are not sponsored links (these ads appear ABOVE the search results), but normal local search results.
Sorry for not having better news
. Maybe the API gets fixed some time with regard to this.
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2009-12-17
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It might be simply a thing of google limiting the number of search results than can be displayed in one go in the API, but not in their full browser version on maps.google.com.
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2009-12-17
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#119
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Originally Posted by twaelti
Could it be related to which search options you choose from your google home search page?
It might be simply a thing of google limiting the number of search results than can be displayed in one go in the API, but not in their full browser version on maps.google.com.
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2009-12-17
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Originally Posted by YoDude
I don't think so, because there are no such settings that I'm aware of. It also doesn't matter if you use maeMaps on PC or N900 - issue remains.
Could it be related to which search options you choose from your google home search page?
Finally, all I can influence is given by the Google API - and there isn't anything related to the issue (there is, but I changed and tried that, but it didn't change anything)
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