On Apr 18, 2:14 pm, joediddley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I didn't know that asking a question would produce so many paternal
> lectures. First its I must be doing something illegal, then its trying
> to invalidate the question or my purpose.  I know you must read a lot
> of threads so this could be oversights, but in all cases i've
> previously stated reasonably why i'm asking the question and provided
> the needed information.

Actually, you haven't. As the coordinates are needed to create a
static map image in the first place, you don't need to deconstruct the
image url to get the coordinates back. That's why the responses have
been less than helpful: you're going about it the wrong way. Unless
you really are simply scraping someone else's page, of course.

Please don't write off people trying to be helpful: see this link
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#id308223 and the
sixth point down: Give good value -- don't suggest kludgy workarounds.
If you've set your mind on a kludgy workaround, it's not going to stop
people telling you you're doing the wrong thing.

> I just had one question - and I will bet hamburgers it is a valid and
> true method of some deeper mapping coordinates/geo understanding.
> Google has documents written about differnet kinds of coordinate
> conversions but I just can't figure out what is going on with this one
> and what they are doing.

You could just have searched the group. I found
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/msg/5689fdcc00d6c12a
after a few minutes. I haven't tested it to see if the method still
works, but even if it doesn't it might give you a pointer or two.

I look forward to my hamburgers...

Andrew
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