PH Classifieds Mapping Beta

[PetrolTed]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/list.asp?p=1&s=79&xsl=map

Thoughts? Observations? Ideas?

[small] I know there are question marks being displayed - haven't sussed solution to that yet[/small]

[PetrolTed]

P.S. Give it a few seconds to load...

[up-the-dubs]

Would there be a search facility?

Any chance of bigger maps/choice of size?

Can it be customised by the user for e.g. motorways only? Highlighted services?

Car-only places of interest?

Seems good though. Only ever used Expedia.co.uk and I never found their maps to be too accurate. A55 from Holyhead wasn't on it and it's a few years old!!!

[miniman]

That is very, very cool. There's a small problem with the page footer bar, perhaps only in Firefox, in that it overlays the google / fish4 etc. ads on the left hand side.

But other than that, it's excellent. It solves the main issue I have with online classifieds in that the first thing I normally want to know is where the cars are located.

[PetrolTed]

Dubs, it's just a classifieds map.

Now I know how to do it I will look at other parts of the site that would benefit from mapping facilities.

[up-the-dubs]

D'oh

Completly !

Now I get it, thats a cool idea. The map shows where the car is!!! Very clever Ted. I like that.


Edit: is it just for me that the 911 page is completly screwed? The page loads, but if I scroll, the page just rubs itself out.

>> Edited by up-the-dubs on Monday 11th July 10:43

[PetrolTed]

What browser are you using? Internet Explorer/Netscape/Opera?

[GreenV8S]

Interesting idea. At one point it seemed to show an advert located in the north atlantic, which seemed a bit unlikely.

[PetrolTed]

GreenV8S said:

Interesting idea. At one point it seemed to show an advert located in the north atlantic, which seemed a bit unlikely.

Any idea what category you were looking at Peter?

[GreenV8S]

I followed the link you posted, which seemed to be showing me Porsches. I clicked on one in Bedford (Flitwick) then zoomed out a few times, and found that there was a marker in the north atlantic that also referred to the Flitwick ad.

[PetrolTed]

Thanks, I'll keep testing.

[up-the-dubs]

PetrolTed said:

What browser are you using? Internet Explorer/Netscape/Opera?

Using IE6, Seems resolved now.

[markmullen]

Fantastic

Using Firefox V1.0 on a Mac under 10.3.9 I did get this error when the page was loading but TBH it didn't seem to slow anything down much.

[towman]

GreenV8S said:

Interesting idea. At one point it seemed to show an advert located in the north atlantic, which seemed a bit unlikely.

Aren`t lighthouse keepers allowed to sell cars then? I believe they have very low mileage.

[up-the-dubs]

towman said:

GreenV8S said: Interesting idea. At one point it seemed to show an advert located in the north atlantic, which seemed a bit unlikely. Aren`t lighthouse keepers allowed to sell cars then? I believe they have very low mileage.

The salt air is a killer though.

[towman]

up-the-dubs said:

towman said: GreenV8S said: Interesting idea. At one point it seemed to show an advert located in the north atlantic, which seemed a bit unlikely. Aren`t lighthouse keepers allowed to sell cars then? I believe they have very low mileage. The salt air is a killer though.

And the steering has never been moved from full lock!

[dinkel]

Nothing happends . . . Mac 9.2 . . . I'll try on Safari tonight.

[Mannginger]

What a great idea - Good tool that!

Phil