Google earth maps in main analysis

[tristancliffe]

Then I don't know what to suggest.

For me, since the day it was released as a Beta, the google map thing has just... worked.

[tiburonski]

Then I don't know what to suggest.

For me, since the day it was released as a Beta, the google map thing has just... worked.

maybe it depends on the racetrack...

[tristancliffe]

Maybe.

It's worked at all the UK sites I've tested it, from the public road, private airfields, and various English circuits...

[2fast4u]

If I knew how, I could send you a copy of the loggdata Im using for you to try.

[tiburonski]

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[Applejack]

The racetrack in q is in Sweden. Is there anything to do with the positioning, interface to googlemaps or something?

Here's a link to some *.RUN files from US locations. Try downloading one of those and seeing if it still doesn't work.

http://www.justracing.com/galleries/thu ... ?album=161

[tiburonski]

ok now I know the reason!

I use the german settings for decimals and thousands. I changed the system settings to english(UK) and now I see the google map! hurra!!!!

[2fast4u]

OK, I did a quick try w the Eastern_Creek_15304 run file, but unfortunately exactly same timeout errors.

What is the difference between you and me? Im running Windows 200 professional here at work and XP at home. Same result at both locations. Any regional differences in comma versus point separator, time format or whatever info that is sent over the internet when the map is being loaded?

It would be very nice to have this feature working.

[tiburonski]

too bad that the gps positioning is a little bit too inaccurate for the track overlay...is there a way to adjust the track positioning?

[tiburonski]

OK, I did a quick try w the Eastern_Creek_15304 run file, but unfortunately exactly same timeout errors.

What is the difference between you and me? Im running Windows 200 professional here at work and XP at home. Same result at both locations. Any regional differences in comma versus point separator, time format or whatever info that is sent over the internet when the map is being loaded?

It would be very nice to have this feature working.

I also used eastern creek and it worked like all my other maps as soon as I switched to the UK settings in the windows system settings...I bet you use the comma (,) decimal seperator so the data sent to google are in the wrong format for google. use the dot (.)

[2fast4u]

OK, we (or rather you) found the problem. Just tested w uk settings for numbers and there it is! Beatiful map appears.

It needs to be fixed though since its not practical to change the regional settings dependent on what application youre about to run.

[tristancliffe]

too bad that the gps positioning is a little bit too inaccurate for the track overlay...is there a way to adjust the track positioning?

You can shift a run around in the Run Manager. But the Google Maps don't seem to be 100% accurately scaled, and on large runs it can get inaccurate.

Early Beta versions were a lot worse (unless you zoomed in on a corner, when they were pretty good). Later Beta/Public versions improved a lot, but it's not error free entirely.

I have it on good authority that work continues on the Google Map feature, so don't expect this to be the last version of it. And it's only a nicety really - it can't be used as a decent part of run analysis (unless I'm just rubbish at run analysis, which is a STRONG possiblity). It does make it nicer to show to people than some lines on a white background though

[tiburonski]

will try to shift it about 5 meters...I think that will do it. apart from that I think it's great. looks nice...

[Michael]

Changing the computer settings to UK didn't work for me running v7.1.18. The time-out error message was displayed every time again and again when trying to load the Google earth map of Spa or Nuerburgring.

Any ideas?

[2fast4u]

Make sure that you have point (.) and not comma (,) as decimal separator. Thats what I changed to get it working. Its found in the regional settings in the control panel.