I have no problem being incredibly precise. For instance, I can get the precise location of a church apse or of a church door, etc.
As I have said before, I use several mapping programs because some, like Bing, have better photos and bird's eye view, and some, like Google, have more maps and are a bit better at guessing the street address of the location you pick. Bing is fine if you already know the correct street address, but does not do so well where you pinpoint a house, say. It approximates the address, which is seldom exactly correct. With Bing maps, the decimal coordinates show when you are in "road" mode. The Bing maps in Legacy show excellent photos, but not bird's eye view. The great feature with Legacy Bing maps is that while you are zoomed in enough to see the church, say, you can right click on a different part of the church or in the churchyard, say, and it will ask if you want to use the coordinates of the spot you just selected. FANTASTIC! The only problem is, that if you need the coordinates in decimal to use in Find A grave, say, you must convert them. Bing maps itself uses decimal coordinates. If you are interested in US locations only, USGS is probably better for you. Most of my locations are European, with a few Crusader sites in the Mid-East, so that is not helpful for me. CE Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 20:47:40 -0700 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Mapping program pin icon precision One of my consistent observations about various map display programs that use a pushpin or map tack icon to indicate locations, is that those icons regularly associate map locations with the body of the pin icons, rather than with the point of the pin icons. How can anyone trust the locations determined by programs like that? How can such imprecise visual locations be compared from one mapping program to another when it is impossible to know where on the pin icon the designated map location may be found? When I have asked the various manufacturers of such programs about the imprecise nature of the pin locations they have invariably told me that if I would simply zoom in on the location the pins would be more precise. I have not found that to be true, however and wonder what impressions others have of such programs, and whether anyone has found a mapping program that uses the pin icon pinpoints to designate locations? John Zimmerman Mesa, AZ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
