{"id":1108,"date":"2010-11-08T22:29:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T22:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2013-09-01T16:49:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T15:49:36","slug":"off-road-points-on-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2010\/11\/off-road-points-on-google-maps.php","title":{"rendered":"Off road points on Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may know that I play this odd treasure\u00a0hunting game called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geocaching\">Geocaching<\/a> and\u00a0nowadays we often use Google Maps to help locate a cache (or the treasure of you prefer). This blog post is a solution to a problem we have when using Google Maps to\u00a0accurately\u00a0plot a location. If you no need to\u00a0accurately\u00a0plot a location on Google Maps then you\u00a0probably\u00a0want to stop reading now.<\/p>\n<p>Recently a friend and I were looking for a Geocache and typed the coordinates in to Google Maps on the iPhone. The point was located on the map at the side of the road, but the treasure\u00a0was really in the field. This happens on the PC as well, but on the PC a green arrow points at the coordinates while the traditional red marker points at the closest road.<\/p>\n<p>This is a bit of a problem for us but after giving this a bit of thought I figured a way to get Google Maps to put the pin at the coordinates we type in. In short the solution is to add a &#8221; (X)&#8221; to the end of the coordinates. Whatever is in the brackets is the waypoint name and can be almost anything.<\/p>\n<p>I will demonstrate by marking the middle of a field, or most\u00a0specifically, Parliament\u00a0Green in London at &#8220;51.500628, -0.126815&#8221;. If we\u00a0search\u00a0for <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=51.500628,%20-0.126815\">&#8220;51.500628, -0.126815&#8221;<\/a> we get pointed at the road next to it (you will need to zoom in to see). By adding the text to the end and searching for <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=51.500628,%20-0.126815%20(Parliament%20Green)\">&#8220;51.500628, -0.126815 (Parliament\u00a0Green)&#8221;<\/a> the pointer is now in the middle of the field where the\u00a0coordinates\u00a0are actually pointing.<\/p>\n<p>Update: After Google updated there app this hack does not work, but it will work with Google Earth. I have <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/09\/off-road-points-on-the-new-google-maps-mobile-apps.php\">blogged an update here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may know that I play this odd treasure\u00a0hunting game called Geocaching and\u00a0nowadays we often use Google Maps to help locate a cache (or the treasure of you prefer). This blog post is a solution to a problem we have when using Google Maps to\u00a0accurately\u00a0plot a location. If you no need to\u00a0accurately\u00a0plot a location on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t60H-hS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}