on 2/13/05 8:30 AM, JB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm just want to say thank you for having this resource available to > the "common folk." > > I'm using a 12" 1.33 powerbook running 10.2.8 and have the full > complete version of Office 2004 Mac, of course. > > By default, when getting directions to an address in my address book, > Entourage takes me to MSN Maps and in apple's Address Book, it takes me > to mapquest. How can I change the Map website in Entourage - mapquest > is much better for me. > > Thanks so much for taking the time to read this...
I can think of a long winded "hack" to make this work. not sure how up for this you are, if there was 20 or so people who wanted this change, I would be happy to write up a tutorial on how to do it. When you click on the driving directions link, it takes you to: http://mappoint.msn.com/ and has search arguments for various parameters like the city and state etc. To be simple about it, lets say they are city=xxx&state=yyy etc etc. What you want to do is create a local DNS entry on OS X for mappoint.msn.com to point to your local copy of apache running php. Next step is to find something unique about the url that Entourage is doing to it, so you can still have access to http://mappoint.msn.com/ need be, something like this: // pseudo php code if (unique Entourage String exits) then // we know Entourage Is requesting else // normal request not spawned by Entourage end if; Within that if/else, you have to use php to recreate the search arguments to be mapquest compatible, or in the case the request is not spawned by entourage, just pass the arguments onward and load the page as normal. it is a massive hack, but it would work and I can not see any reason it would be problematic. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Fax: 313.557.5052 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novato, CA U.S.A. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
