Map Activity Please advise
I've produced apps before with the map activity writing in the address, which then automatically found the latitued and longitude with no issues.
I've not done anything for a couple of months. Just started a new App, this time when I've put the address in, the same way as I did before it's not found the Latitude and Longitude, and not registered on the map. I copied and pasted the address from one of my existing projects which had no problem, the same happens... it doesn't find the location. I then obtained the co-ordinates from Google maps which did the trick. However for me to go through that process (Obtaining the co-ordinates from Google Maps) for a hundred address's makes the the excercise extremely tedius and long winded.
Has something gone down? Is it a temparary issue? Has anyone else experienced the problem? Am I missing something?
Gratfull for any advise or guidence...
Regards
Stachel
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Regards
Stachel
The best workaround is to use another service such as Google maps to get the latitude and longitude for the location you want, and then enter the coordinates directly (without using the address lookup).
Having global address data is important to us, but finding a reliable map provider is proving difficult...we've gone through several of them so far.
Hopefully resolved soon -
With hundreds of address's to input for a specific project, I dread having to look up the latitude/logitude for each one on Google maps, and then re-writing the address's with the lat/long results into Andromo
Fingures crossed
Trying out ‘jankb’s’ solution for which I’ve inserted some screen
captures
select Lat/Long
and write click then copy (If in Chrome – the copy facility appears when
selecting the icon in the top right hand corner – Make sure the Lat/Long is
highlighted though)
Lat/long section, plus the map and red pin will update at the bottom
Seems like a long way around but actually took me less then 30
seconds, and will keep us going on the map activities, while giving our Andromo
guys some breathing space to look into it.
Thanks for the interim solution ‘jankb’ I’m back to creating
again.
Hope the screen captures below are clear enough...
Regards
Andy
I believe that we have a fix for the international address Lat/Lon lookups in place. It's taken awhile to find a new data provider that supported more address, but I've been successful in entering a number of the addresses you provided and getting what looks like a correct geolocation on them.
Additionally, it is now easier to change the Latitude and Longitude values manually if you need to. Previously, it seems like the 'auto' lookup was always trying to overwrite the manually entered values. This is now fixed as well.
Thanks for your patience and let me know if there are any troubles with the new data.
Colin