Doesn't Google Map work by default

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Someone else started a topic about using the Google Map but it seems their map was working.  Regardless of what city I click on, it takes me to the Pacific Ocean.  There seems to be a disconnect between the location and the map. Is there something disabled, or do I have to enter the Google Map location for every city?

I realize that Google Map might not correctly identify all the various names and spellings, but can't it find basic ones?

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Hi Lew

"but can't it find basic ones" - the short answer is no, it can't.

The module works by you creating a table of coordinates (yes, for every village, town, city, state, or country you want or need), PGV then looks for your places (using EXACT spelling and format) to collect the data.

However, there is a quick(er) way than manualyy entering them all. If you look in your PGV download, there is a folder called /modules/googlemap/extras/ It contains a series of text files that can be imported into the GM module to populate its place tables. No guarantee it WILL have every place you need, but it is likely to get a lot of them, if you import the right countries and/or states.

The import is done from the "Edit geographic place locations" page which you can get to from any Map tab.

As for why - when yes, to an extent Google could supply the coordinates for you - there are plenty - like the ability to run PGV locally (no internet); the fact that we are dealing with history, so Google may have never heard of many of the old places we need to find, etc etc…

Nigel

[Mark Hattam]

If you're running locally (no internet) … er … how do you get the map? If no map, then place markers are pretty irrelevant.

But yes, you do have to populate your own conversion of name to co-ordinate table.

Mark

[Janci]

maybe a different question, but did not want to create new topic:

why in the MAP tab, the google map navigation does not work like on google maps page, what I mean eg zooming by mouse wheel, or double click on the map… or where can I set this? thx

[Anonymous]

1 - You should have started a fresh topic. This is different to the original subject of this topic, so you have reduced  the chances of a search finding your issue. Why didn't you want to? Its no harder than replying.
2 - You can't enable scroll-wheel zoom. PGV is set to use Google Maps API v2. That feature wasn't available until 2.78.  Even then, it should be configurable (code needed) as not everyone likes it.
3 - The V2 series API is now deprecated (as of May 19, 2010). PGV needs to upgrade to API 3.