Community Map Project

I figured it was a neat idea.  A new window opened showing the map, but I don't have the option to 'edit', so can't put my little blue balloon down

Not only do I not see an edit button anywhere on the map right, left, top, or bottom, but I also don't see anyone except you and Marilyn on the map.

OK it finally worked.  I have a google ID already but I had to sign in and then go to the map by way of Jayne's link instead of the other way around.

same here.

I see what Jayne is talking about but it I dont the edit button to come up at all..

whats going girl's??

patsy

Jayne, some of us are missing everything between the Google banner and the line just below says Get Directions and My Maps. Then where you have the edit button we have 1/2 inch white space and then "Community Members..." and descriptive paragraph.

How many of us experiencing this problem are using either a Mac, or Safari?

Me. 

LOL--Kelly posted a picture of what I was trying to describe! Yeah, Kelly. 

Saw Penn's comment that she had to log into google. 

See on the top right of the screen above the map, it says sign in?  Click on it - if you don't already have a google id, it didn't ask for anything but your email and a password, and it doesn't seem to have added the google toolbar or anything I didn't want.

Then, I opened the link from Jayne's post, signed in, and had the edit button so I could add my spot.  Zoomed in nice and close and clicked on the right street and everything.  So neat!

Jayne

Did you by any chance fix mine too..lol..

I just hope me hit the right spot or close to WV..lol..

 patsy

Are we the only ones on this side of the border so far?

I'm fascinated by the (lack of) detail for the US towns - I went to zoom in on a particular member and even in the highest resolution there are whole blocks of big towns that have no detail, whereas if you were to zoom in on me to the highest resolution, that's where I live. Now maybe that's because the person I looked at didn't want to give that much detail, and I can understand that one, no problem at all, in this age of stalkers, but I got the impression that the detail just isn't there - maybe I'm wrong

Apparently Google Earth puts increasingly finer detail in an area depending on the number of hits the inhabitants make, and given that DH has put our little village on the map, maybe that's why I can pinpoint the area so exactly - the brother checked and there are areas of London that are given in far less detail.

So could you check for your own address (even if you move yourself away afterwards) and let me know how detailed your area is, as this enquiring mind would like to know

Hugs

Sadhbh

Jayne--you might want to add "Sign In" to google as the first direction.  The edit button doesn't even pop up until I did that.  After that, it was easy.  But for the longest time, I was scratching my head and wondering...

I zoomed in as close as I could - for my pin - the street map is accurate, but can't see much more detail beyond that - but the park behind my house is clearly marked, and it looks like there are some house numbers on the street that are right.

Donna - you need to zoom in closer - you put your pin in the Atlantic Ocean.    Are we the only ones on the board in this area I wonder??

- must make it awkward at times for keeping the flour dry

Things are looking very interesting

Aunt Cheryl - not seeing state lines very clearly, you're slightly west of North Carolina from where I'm standing, north of Happy Valley

Something very weird is going on about who's done the updating, but it's great fun and very interesting

Hugs

Sadhbh

of Donna and Michelle who seem to be living on yachts

I had to pull myself out of the water also.  It's truely amazing at what you can actually see if you go to the satellite and then zoom in on something.

Jayne - kudos to you and Scott and everyone else at eHarlequin who had a hand in dreaming this puppy up. You're taking social networking to an astronomical level.

I use this google map and the little baloons to show our congregation where the church blog hits come from but that's just a paper map I print off from stat counter.

This is the real definition of interactive and I love it!!! Can I blog about it.... pretty please with maple syrup on top?

When I first looked at the map, I didn't see a balloon in the upper left. I closed off, reloaded, re-read your instructions, then noticed the EDIT button to the immediate left of the map. No problem after that.

I'm using Explorer 8.

Thank you so much.... squee!!!

Y'all, Jayne turned me into Tuna Casserole, years ago, er well, something that resembled it. There was a vaccum cleaner incident...*shuders and twitches at the thought.*

Rae

I didn't realize that if you clicked on Satelite it'd show you streets and stuff in real time. While I was no where near my house, I was close enough that it slightly freaked me out, so following Ellen Hartman I put myself in one of my favorite places--Heinz Field. It was a toss-up though. I debated on putting myself at the Mellon Arena, but since they're supposed to tear it down and build a new Hockey Rink, I'll reside at Heinz Field for now. It's new.

Rae

And if you drove another 5 hours from Penn's house you could come see me.  By all means lets go visit Wayne in Barbados by way of google.