When Microsoft bought Multimap, several of us pulled long faces and went into our Grumpy Old Men routine. But I have to admit, I'm baffled by what's been going on - or, more accurately, going off.
For example, the maps. I know I used Multimap to navigate a journey to East Sussex six months ago, and it was incredibly detailed. Yesterday, I tried again; the map has changed. It's about six years old - houses which were on the old map in blade-of-grass detail - gone! - just a vague blur which shows a building site (maybe).
Or the red circle. Six months ago, you could move it. So, if you wanted to send some directions, you could find the approximate area with a search (find, say Manor House Tube) and then focus in on the lake south of there. Then move the focus circle. bingo! - a URL for exactly the spot. Well, either I dreamed it, or it's been hidden, or taken away. Gone.
And what about the "I can't find this address" feedback button? I know it used to be there! Today, looking for a really well known landmark (the Welsh Harp lake at the London end of the M1 motorway) the only place it could find is a farm called Welsh Hook in Dyfed. And no feedback form at all.
Let's see what this "open API" thing is, and find out more...
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Did you try right click in the map to move the red circle?
Hi,
When you mention the houses which are now gone in East Sussex, do you mean the Aerial Imagery or the actual Map itself? (care to share the URL?)
The Red Circle should still work - I tried it in the following way :-
1. Do a search for "Manor House station"
2. Drag the map to the West Reservoir
3. Right-click where you want the Red Circle
4. Select "Place red cirlce here"
5. ...and the Red Circle has been moved to where you want it
...if you click on "link" you may notice a new Mutimap feature that condenses the URL into a shorter (tiny) one which I think is quite neat (Like ths : http://www.multimap.com/s/udsgmjv5)
Regarding you 3rd point : If you searched for something like "Welsh Harp lake", Multimap does return a list of suggestions trying to best match your query and at the bottom there is a link to report that you can't find what you're looking for.
Cheers
Jason
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