[Xerte] Re: Google maps template in Xerte Online Toolkit

[Pat Lockley]

There was a flash plugin

That died

Then the API returned a picture of the locale which you could click on.

That seems to have gone to silicon heaven, with the toasters.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Alistair McNaught
<Alistair.McNaught at heacademy.ac.uk> wrote:
> Maybe, but to be honest I've not had success on other occasions and have always put it down to operator error (me) and never got round to following up. Are there lots of other LOs with successful maps embedded?
>
> The http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_560 object has the same thing that it comes up with map of world first and only gets to Notts map via separate Window... only it works on ie as well as FF.
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> ..but then if api has changed everything will be odd for a while
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> A
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 30 June 2011 11:21
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Google maps template in Xerte Online Toolkit
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> Google has a newish interface since yesterday
>
> wondering if they've done for the API.... again
>
> Don't be evil
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> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Alistair McNaught
> <Alistair.McNaught at heacademy.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Just tried it on JISC Techdis sandpit and I get the same - except if I click
>> on the map of the world in FF it opens a new window with the map I want...
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>> A
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>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Usher Julie
>> Sent: 30 June 2011 10:01
>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> Subject: [Xerte] Google maps template in Xerte Online Toolkit
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>> Hi all
>>
>> Is anyone else having trouble viewing the maps added using the google maps
>> template in Xerte Online? In Internet Explorer (8) I just see a blank white
>> square, and in Firefox I see a map of the whole world...
>>
>> I'm a relatively new user so I may have missed something obvious - any
>> advice would be much appreciated.
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>> Thanks a lot
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