Speed camera database submission giving odd locations

TheGeneral365 · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 27, 2008 Posts: 4

I've submitted this location today (51.334908476943,-0.72040110826492) by entering the co-ordinates into the find location box, but when you look at the map, it places the marker nowhere near the position (as verified in google maps). So when you press the "accept this location" button, you get totally the wrong location. I think the tool is homing in on something in google maps, and not onto my location.

Is this supposed to work like this, because it has fooled me into submitting the wrong locations today.

Robert Sad

richard345 · Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:16 pm Post subject:

Entering those co-ordinates on the Submission map & Google Maps give me the exact same location for the pointer - SW carriageway of the M3 with Azalea Way almost due South at Camberley.

Is this the intended point? If so, the position accepted when clicking the Update Co-ordinates button becomes

51.339512
-0.712118

Very odd!
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M8TJT · Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject:

Hi Robert and welcome to the forums. Very Happy

I have also found the problem that you describe. Confused

I think it's a problem with Google maps but I,m not certain.
If you drag the map so that the pointer is in the exact position of the cam then click the 'Accept this location' then the correct location is pasted into the form. (Don't forget to put the cam in the middle of the road, not by the side of the road where it is actually located.)
If as you say, you enter a lat/long, the map goes to the wrong position, and the wrong position is then pasted into the form. Our database manager will no doubt have a look at this problem soon. Very Happy

M8TJT · Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:32 pm Post subject:

I make the location (51.334908476943,-0.72040110826492 On my Satnav) to be on the SW bound carriageway of the M3 where it crosses over the A325 (Portsmouth Road) roundabout but the google map takes me some distance north east of this, about 500 ft south west of SPECS:66529

TheGeneral365 · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 27, 2008 Posts: 4

Yes the correct location is by the bridge of the A325. Google maps (In a new browser window) puts a handy green arrow at the exact location. I'm glad it's not me going mad then.
Thanks for the hints too.

Robert

M8TJT · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:43 am Post subject:

I just tried your lat/lon in Google Maps and get the correct location as well, but the submission map does not.

The prognosis is that Google Maps work correctly Very Happy

but our submission map does not Crying or Very sad

MaFt · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:53 am Post subject:

searching for '51.334908476943,-0.72040110826492' shows the location as 'M3, Camberley, Surrey GU15 1, UK' where as previously it would show the co-ordinates.

it looks like the geolocation is 'matching' it to the nearest road instead of actually just showing the co-ordinate location on the map... if you change the 51 to 52 you will see that it shows the exact co-ordinates on the map as it is not on a road to match it to.

this will be something that has changed in google local search as we use a messy hack for this...

MaFt

M8TJT · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:28 am Post subject:

But Google Maps show the location correctly Shocked

PS. Welcome home. Good holiday Question

MaFt · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:56 am Post subject:

but we use a crazy hack of google-local to do our searching / geo-location as the search api wasn't available when we set it up or it was, but was limited...

MaFt

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:08 pm Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:01 pm Post subject:

ok, i've been beavering away most of the morning and finally had the guts to test the code on the live site!!

needless to say i've surprised myself and it works first time!

you can now search for co-ordinates in the decimal degree form - i.e. 52.12345,-2.54321 (note no spaces!)

other formats may be possible in the near future but for now you will need to convert to decimal degrees!

MaFt

M8TJT · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:31 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:52 pm Post subject:

Well done! Are you going to pass it on to Google, so they can fix their own map interface? Smile

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