Campsite MAP Added to Database Forums

geraldandannie · Moderator

Can I say that as a campsite database virgin, I was moved to add a campsite for the first time today. It was painless and fulfilling experience, and took no more than 10 minutes to enter the data, most of which was spent moving the Google map around until I found the right place. Had I had the GPS coordinates, it would have been five minutes.

Very nice facility.

Gerald

peedee

Gerald now I know you can click to move your balloon before you save it, I think you will find it will be quicker to click on the overview map where you think the site is. Zoom in click again zoom click etc. until you are at a sufficient level to know for certain. I find it quicker sometime to also use the satellite view for greater detail and sometimes you can actually see the caravans and motorhomes on the pitches Laughing

peedee

nukeadmin · Site Admin

thx Gerald, lots of effort going in to this to make it easy to use and for the end result to be useful Smile

ralph-dot

Nuke, when you have finished all of the tweaks, etc, someone should write an instruction on how to put an entry on the map.

Ralph

nukeadmin · Site Admin

you volunteering Ralph as you have been a busy bee adding loads of entries lately ?

ralph-dot

I could give it a go (writing instructions and training manuals was part of my job until left to do nowt) but I will be away until Thursday, if you can wait I can do it then.

Ralph

Boff

Hi,

I am still a bit uncertain regarding "wild camping", "Stellplatz/Aire" and "MH friendly parking" places:

Having entered quite a few sites in Germany, I have noticed that if I classify them as "Stellplatz" they are marked with the symbol:

Which in my opinion indicates that you can dump waste water there. The German word "Stellplatz" however describes only a place where you can spend (at least) one night in a motorhome, so says nothing about any waste water facilities. Admittedly the majority of the official German Stellplatz sites has such facilities, at least in close proximity. However there is still a large number that has not and is still "official"! So using this symbol for a "Stellplatz" in general would be misleading. Same goes for French "Aires" and Italian "Arees".

To avoid this dilemma I have therefore so far classified all stellplatz sites with waste water facilities as "Stellplatz", and those without as "MH friendly parking". That has worked fine so far, but now on the map all these "parkings" are shown as "Wild spots", which they clearly are not!

So what do we do here?

Best Regards,
Gerhard

P.S: I had also noticed that some of my "Stellplatz" sites had "magically" converted to parking places, but that seems to have stabilized now.

tuvalu

Hi

possible micro bug [ little bug ] and sorry if this has already been mentioned.

Placing the red blob on the map after entering all the details I noticed that if I changed from MAP to Satellite the red blob leapt about a 150 yards in a north easterly direction. On changing to HYBRID it leapt another 150 yards in further! I went back to the MAP view and the red blog stayed 300 yards off target. I backed out of the page and went back in and just used the MAP to set the GPS position. It maybe that this isn't causing any problems as others may just drag it back to where it should be in which ever view they are using.

The entry concerned was Grindjorda Narvik (ID:1586)

Regards
Phil

nukeadmin · Site Admin

Hi Phil thx for letting me know, but i think this is beyond my control and must be a minor irritation of google map api itself as i have no control over that aspect of it.