Friday, January 20, 2012

Do you have a solution to this odd little problem with Google Maps?

In Dallas, TX, Google Maps and Google Earth show small blue bus stop icons (like a sign with the front of a bus coming toward you) In GEarth they may have to be turned on in transportation layer. In GMaps, you have to zoom in to the level where the map shows about 6-10 blocks across the map.

What is supposed to happen is that when you click on the icon, a balloon pops up telling you the bus routes serving that stop and the next buses. This is what happens on GEarth and in Firefox, as I discovered recently.

In IE7 under XP, moving the mouse cursor to the icon briefly produced the pointing finger cursor of a link, but any attempt to click makes that icon go away and makes the grabbing fist for moving the map. DART, the bus company, says it works with their various operating systems and browsers.

Yes, I have cookies and Java activated and working with IE7. I had just assumed it was an IE7 bug.

If you want to try this, go to Google and type in Mockingbird %26amp; Abrams, Dallas, TX and zoom in somewhat. You should see 4 icons arranged around the intersection for the 519 route.

Any suggestions?Do you have a solution to this odd little problem with Google Maps?
Google Maps is a online application

google earth is a core application

your bound to get some things that are diffrent in the 2

nothing to worry aboutDo you have a solution to this odd little problem with Google Maps?
Thanks for your question, I enjoyed the visit to the Dallas map. I learned something. I used Opera and Firefox. Opera was much cleaner, smoother graphics and the bus icons worked for me in both XP and Linux. Strange, I looked at page Source. The page is created with --



xmlns:v=urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml%26gt;鈥?http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/%26gt;%26lt;meta http-equiv=X-UA-Compatible content="IE=EmulateIE7"



and plain-vanilla javascript is the software that drives the buttons



Try Opera. It's slick and you can turn graphics OFF for pages that load you down. And zoom any page also.

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