Re: [Launchpad-users] Problems with map locations

["Charlie Poole" <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>]

I updated the bug with my info, since it has a few extra
wrinkles.

Charlie 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis Hovey [mailto:curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 10:38 PM
> To: Charlie Poole
> Cc: launchpad-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Launchpad-users] Problems with map locations
> 
> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 16:23 -0700, Charlie Poole wrote:
> > We're seeing problems with users updating their location on 
> the map. 
> > Under certain circumstances, the pointer ends up in the middle of 
> > Russia after clicking update. This occurred for one user in North 
> > America and another in Sweden.
> > 
> > I suspect this has something to do with dragging at a low-res zoom 
> > level, then zooming in and dragging further without 
> pressing update in 
> > between but I haven't experimented with it systematically.
> > 
> > I can try some further experiments, but I thought I'd check 
> to see if 
> > this is a known problem first.
> 
> This is bug 387738 [Launchpad refuses to believe that I don't 
> live in Russia, near the Kazakhstan border] 
> <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-registry/+bug/387738>
> 
> Something has changed in either Google and/or geonames; our 
> code passes data betweenthem and has not changed in many 
> months. This is the first time the problem has affected users 
> i North America and Sweden. This is new information. All the 
> other cases were near Greenwich, which implied a problem near 
> 0 longitude.
> 
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