You wrote
>yeah, larry if you pop open any balloon, you will see the GPS
>coordinates are actually listed there- those are generated by our
>partners in the field in Africa, using a range of GPS devices- Garmin,
>Magellen, etc. So ideally, if you copy those, and paste them in the
>search bar, they should take you right back to that same balloon-
>however, they don't. they take you a few miles AWAY. Weird thing is in
>Google Earth, they take you to the exact right place- right to the
>marker.
The values displayed in your infowindows are lat/lng pairs rather than
GPX coordinates. If that's always the case, you can just do this:
function showAddress(address) {
var point = GLatLng.fromUrlValue(address);
map.setCenter(point, 10);
var marker = new GMarker(point);
map.addOverlay(marker);
marker.openInfoWindowHtml(address);
}
It works in Google Earth because the Google Earth code guesses that
those numbers are lat/lng pairs and doesn't attempt to geocode them.
Google's database for Ethiopia is a bit sparse. When you geocode a
location, you get one of the points in Google's database, which might be
a considerable distance away.
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Mike Williams
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