Template talk:Gbmapping/Archive 1

message: Hum. Not a great fan of MultiMap and its very mundane street maps, and the scale this link brings up is way too large for most of the applications of the template. I must confess that when I created this template, one of my motivations was a hope that I'd be able to find a way to link to the Ordnance Survey's own Get-A-Map web service, which brings up decent topographic maps. But I havn't managed to do so, largely because of the way that service uses browser specific Javascript. So I suppose this is better than nothing; hope that doesn't sound too grudging :-). -- Chris j wood 00:27, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Having added it I was finding that it's scales and quality of view were very erratic. They do offer topographic maps on one of their scale levels although I don't know how to link straight to them. I'll hunt out a better site, but for now it makes the template more useful than before :) --BesigedB 09:35, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  For the record, for get a map we would use   --BesigedB 10:19, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Link to Multimap

message: Could whoever thinks this category is necessary defend it on Categories for Deletion.  As far as I can tell it just lumps all British settlements and geographical landmarks into one ugly and pointless category.  Joe D (t) 17:14, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defending the existence of [[:Category:Articles with OSGB36 coordinates]]? 

message: As per the recent vote at CfD, the category :Category:Articles with OSGB36 coordinates is going to be deleted.  I've removed the category from all of the templates I knew of, and as the articles are edited, they'll be removed from the category.  --Kbdank71 17:02, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 April 13 for debate --Henrygb 09:26, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: CfD

message: I'm getting the following error message when I click on the template, is it just me? Grinner 10:14, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No.  It's 403.  Seems BT have worked out what was going on and fixed it.  The long-term solution is to vote for Bug 2340, though there may be other temporary work arounds (such as linking straight into OS getamap). Dunc|☺ 17:52, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: not working any more?

message: Hi can any of you help,
On the page for Chew Valley Lake I've used the gbmapping link to the various options available. I originally used a 10 digit ref ST5695059749 but another user said this only showed a part of the lake and would be better to use the 6 digit ref ST5659 in the hope that it would point to a larger scale map showing the whole lake (& a bit of surroundings) (probably 1:50000 would be best for this map. I've tried using mmukscaled|ST5659|200| but when you follow the link it still end up at a 1:25000 scale rather than the 1:200000 that I was expecting for. Rod 10:56, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linking to maps of larger scale 

message: Links using the  template are currently giving this error:
 Warning: main(../../wiki/includes/Defines.php) [function.main]:
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 /home/egil/public_html/extensions/mapsources/index.php on line 40
 
 Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening 
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 (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') 
 in /home/egil/public_html/extensions/mapsources/index.php 
 on line 40"
Dave.Dunford 06:34, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Broken?

message: Can this template be made more like ? Specifically, the little globe that has the drop-down mini-atlas would be a cool addition.
Mauls (talk) 00:47, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coord family of templates