The Streetmap site is *still* showing the "streetmap.dll" method in its "How to link" info, even
though they scrapped the URLs several days ago in favour of the "newmap.srf" method. The
redirections to the new URLs are still behaving erratically. The website may well be free, but it
would actually help if it worked as advertised!
I stand by my harsh words used in my original posting. Hundreds of website owners may well be
blissfully unaware that their Streetmap links to OS Landranger maps suddenly stopped working a few
days ago. Not good practice on the part of Streetmap, is it? Being a free service is irrelevant.
I note that, as predicted, the extra "&dn=" parameter increased from 529 to 530 at midnight on
Thursday 18 December, to stop everyone from constructing their own direct URLs!
All is not totally lost, though. As I said in my original message, you can click on the "steps" icon
between the "+" and "-" buttons below the map image, to access the OS 1:50000 Landranger data. Once
that is loaded, you can zoom and pan, etc., as in the good old days.
Also, if you want the bigger 5km x 5km coverage, just click on the "Large Map" icon, after you've
loaded the OS 1:50000 data using the "steps" icon.
However, I've noticed that the "Printer friendly map" icon (just underneath the zoom and "steps"
icons) strips off that extra "&dn=" parameter to stop you printing out that nice OS data!
To fix this, I'm afraid you have to go into the address bar and stick it back on the end of the URL
manually. Hey presto! You've got a printer friendly OS 1:50000 map. If you want the 5km x 5km rather
than 3km x 3km size, just edit the URL in the address bar again to change the "z=3" parameter to
"z=4", but making sure you keep the "&dn=" bit. Remember that the 5km x 5km size spills over the
edge of A4 paper, unless you reduce it down before printing.
If the clock strikes midnight while you're fiddling about doing all this, watch out! Streetmap's
server will have changed that pesky "&dn=" number again!
Have fun!
ALAN TURNBULL www.emmerdale.me.uk
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