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Came here to officially end my lurking status by posting the same question. I tried every which way to make it work (all the way down to creating a new firefox profile to see if any of my add-ons were creating a conflict), and got so frustrated I was ready to give up entirely and map it by hand. Though I'm glad to see it's not just me, I'd love to see it come back up before we drive across the state for Thanksgiving!

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I have historically never had a problem with routes, but this morning I went in to change an existing one and ran into an issue.

 

I can move the start and end points without difficulty. Of course, when you do that, any intermediate points that were set are lost. I expected that. The problem comes when trying to drag the route line to customize it.

 

When I hover the cursor over the route, I get the pointy finger mouse pointer as I should, but, when I left-click & drag, instead of dragging the route line I drag the whole map. I cannot move the route line.

 

I am currently on IE9 under Win 7. I'll try Chrome this evening.

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I just tried (at 7:30 pm central time) modifying a route using Chrome and when I clicked on "Modify Route", It comes up with the map on NW Wash., centered on Seattle. If I scroll to where the route should be, there is no route there.

 

In IE 9 at home I am seeing the same behavior as earlier.

 

Both browsers at home are running under Win 7 Home Premium.

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It's been five days. I still can't create a route.

 

Did you see...

 

We will have a band-aid fix for this issue in Tuesday's site update. Since there have been some functionality changes with the new API, it will take a little longer to put everything back the way it was, so to speak.

I guess the thing I'm struggling with is that Google announced this *months* ago, like six or seven, and GS decided to wait until they HAD to band-aid a fix. The question is why did they not address the problem and move to v3 some time ago?

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It's been five days. I still can't create a route.

 

Did you see...

 

We will have a band-aid fix for this issue in Tuesday's site update. Since there have been some functionality changes with the new API, it will take a little longer to put everything back the way it was, so to speak.

I guess the thing I'm struggling with is that Google announced this *months* ago, like six or seven, and GS decided to wait until they HAD to band-aid a fix. The question is why did they not address the problem and move to v3 some time ago?

 

Having been in the IT business for over 30 years and having installed updates to software thousands of times to all types of platforms, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and here's why.

 

When I get new version release announcements, I evaluate them to determine if it is an update has bug fixes I need and/or offers new features that warrant the effort and potential down time or impact on my users based on what the vendor tells me about the update. Sometimes I apply the update, sometimes I don't. Sometimes an update will cause far more disruption for users than just leaving things alone will cause. There has been a time or two where the vendor did not provide a clear picture of the update. They are generally great at saying why you should install it, but sometimes they are less than forthcoming in saying what will happen if you don't. So yes, there have been a time or two that not applying an update caused some issues so I had to do an emergency fix until I could do a proper update.

 

Now, I don't know if that is the case here, but I understand how this kind of thing can easily happen. I don't like the inconvenience either, but I get how it can easily happen and I can use alternative methods for a few days.

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This situation isn't the same as simply needing to decide whether a new version of software is worth implementing. Several months ago, Google warned everyone who was paying attention that the previous Google Maps API wouldn't be supported once the new version was in place.

 

The developers of GSAK migrated to the new API in plenty of time to avoid these problems. I'm amazed that Groundspeak didn't heed the warnings and prepare in time for the inevitable. I'm just thankful that GSAK provides an alternative method for finding caches along a route.

 

--Larry

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I'd say Google gave about a year and half notice prior to retiring API v2 and that's only well after v3 was available. API v2 was initially schedule to drop in spring 2013 as I remember and they extended it to November. There was plenty of notice and warning. I was well aware of the changes.

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It's been five days. I still can't create a route.

 

Did you see...

 

We will have a band-aid fix for this issue in Tuesday's site update. Since there have been some functionality changes with the new API, it will take a little longer to put everything back the way it was, so to speak.

I guess the thing I'm struggling with is that Google announced this *months* ago, like six or seven, and GS decided to wait until they HAD to band-aid a fix. The question is why did they not address the problem and move to v3 some time ago?

 

Having been in the IT business for over 30 years and having installed updates to software thousands of times to all types of platforms, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and here's why.

 

When I get new version release announcements, I evaluate them to determine if it is an update has bug fixes I need and/or offers new features that warrant the effort and potential down time or impact on my users based on what the vendor tells me about the update. Sometimes I apply the update, sometimes I don't. Sometimes an update will cause far more disruption for users than just leaving things alone will cause. There has been a time or two where the vendor did not provide a clear picture of the update. They are generally great at saying why you should install it, but sometimes they are less than forthcoming in saying what will happen if you don't. So yes, there have been a time or two that not applying an update caused some issues so I had to do an emergency fix until I could do a proper update.

 

Now, I don't know if that is the case here, but I understand how this kind of thing can easily happen. I don't like the inconvenience either, but I get how it can easily happen and I can use alternative methods for a few days.

As others have pointed out, it is not a matter of weighting is the benefits of the upgrade greater than the risks. It is a matter of deciding do you want your application to continue to operate or are satisfied with it not working? Google was originally going to turn off V2 support in the spring of this year but extended it to now to give some users more time to migrate. GS did not take advantage of this and now they have to scramble to get something to work. That is why I'm struggling with understanding why GS did not update the app months ago so the turning off of V2 support was a non-event.

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Unfortunately, due to the shortened holiday week here in the US this week (Thanksgiving on Thursday and Friday also a national holiday), we are short-staffed and so will not be releasing a site update today. This fix will have to wait until next Tuesday when more of the engineering team is in the office.

 

The item was first reported on the 19th and because of a two day holiday it takes two weeks to fix? I bet some people would have loved to have that feature available for their holiday activities.

 

NB: Moun10Bike, I don't think you do the scheduling so the above isn't aimed at you personally, rather it is directed at the scheduling and QA process leaders as this need for the change has apparently been well known for some time. As always, we appreciate the updates and rapid help you give for many of the problems that crop up, be they real or user malfunction. Thank you Moun10Bike and have a nice Thanksgiving!

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WELL CRAP been waiting for Tues and here it is Tues and now to be told its going to be next Tues? That's a bunch of crap. That's pretty much the only reason I pay for premium. Holiday weekend and nothing. Ridiculous. Yes I know I can get the job done on GSAK but I am not that familiar with that program and tried it last night and got really frustrated so figured I would wait till today as the fix was supposed to be done. Grrrrrr Not a happy customer I can tell you that. Very poor planning and implementation of changes on this site anymore it seems. Always behind the eight ball instead of in front.

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Sorry, Moun10bike. I'm afraid my support for the Groundspeak plan for resolving the problem has dissipated. The excuse of it being a holiday is terribly insufficient. When anything in any system I have worked on had significant problems that widely and seriously affected end users, people came in to work on the problem, no matter the day or time. The middle of the night, during a weekend, over a holiday, no matter. It's part of the job.

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Now I have a little problem: during "downtime" I created som "zero routes" which show in my list of created routes. Does anybody know how to delete those? I can't seem to find an appropriate button for this action.

 

Go to your routes, Click on a route. It opens it for Create/Edit. Scroll to the bottom, you'll find a delete button.

I've found where I cannot delete a bunch of routes similar to deleting PQs, they can only be deleted one at a time by opening them.

 

Hope that helps.

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Sorry, Moun10bike. I'm afraid my support for the Groundspeak plan for resolving the problem has dissipated. The excuse of it being a holiday is terribly insufficient. When anything in any system I have worked on had significant problems that widely and seriously affected end users, people came in to work on the problem, no matter the day or time. The middle of the night, during a weekend, over a holiday, no matter. It's part of the job.

+1. The first thing that crossed my mind is that they don't have it working yet and the lead developer had plane tickets and plans to go out of town on a visit.

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Route PQs existed for quite a while before GC.com gave us a map for creating routes. We used other tools to create the route. MapSource, Google Earth, yournavigation, to name a few. Sure it's not as convenient. But it's not difficult. Create the route, upload it, and run your PQ. It's not rocket surgery, folks.

 

I agree with you when you say it isn't difficult but, that wasn't the point. They knew about it well ahead of time and ignored it even after it became a problem.

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I am having the same problem. When I enter the starting and ending locations and click "search", the map doesn't budge from the map with Seattle in the center. I'll watch this topic and see if they can get it fixed soon. We're going to work on the ET Highway run at the end of December and will definitely need it to work by then!

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Still not functioning as of 1430, 02Dec13. Just tested on Firefox 12 on RHEL5 Linux and FireFox 24 on W7.

 

If these services were free, I'd say I'm getting what I paid for... but pocket queries is one of the main functions I use, which costs a yearly membership. (NOTaHAPPYCamper)

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Tried to do a create a route this morning. Still not working, can't save and if I go over 500 miles it does not show the correction. Getting there and thanks for working on the problem. Happy Holidays.

 

As I recall there has always been a 500 mile limitation. I have several regular trips that I had to break into segments. So on routes you have (had?) a 500 mile limit, 500 route point limit, and a 1000 cache limit.

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Tried to do a create a route this morning. Still not working, can't save and if I go over 500 miles it does not show the correction. Getting there and thanks for working on the problem. Happy Holidays.

 

As I recall there has always been a 500 mile limitation. I have several regular trips that I had to break into segments. So on routes you have (had?) a 500 mile limit, 500 route point limit, and a 1000 cache limit.

 

Yes, you are correct but you have always been able to move the start or finish point closer to each other. When I moved the start or finish point it still showed me over 500 miles. They still must be working on the problem

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Tried to do a create a route this morning. Still not working, can't save and if I go over 500 miles it does not show the correction. Getting there and thanks for working on the problem. Happy Holidays.

 

As I recall there has always been a 500 mile limitation. I have several regular trips that I had to break into segments. So on routes you have (had?) a 500 mile limit, 500 route point limit, and a 1000 cache limit.

 

Yes, you are correct but you have always been able to move the start or finish point closer to each other. When I moved the start or finish point it still showed me over 500 miles. They still must be working on the problem

 

Oh, yeah, OK. Moun10bike mentioned in another thread that the editing functions are still wonky and being worked on.

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On the "Create / Edit a Route" page, the ability to "Edit" (I believe that previously there was a button to "Modify") is gone.

 

Moun10bike, is that intentional?

 

If so, then the title of that page is just plain wrong as one can do neither create nor edit from this page at this time.

 

Losing the ability to edit a route is unfortunate. In fact, I had hoped that at some point it would be "fixed" to where it might save for editing all the route modifications that one makes in a session, rather than having the edit function offer only the endpoints and the auto-calculated route.

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