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apneadiving / Google-Maps-for-Rails

Enables easy Google map + overlays creation in Ruby apps
https://apneadiving.github.io/
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Marker position inconsistent in example app #486

Closed rtomsmith closed 8 years ago

rtomsmith commented 8 years ago

In the gmaps example app (no local edits), I create a single user which results in setting the latitude/longitude position (35.1185868, -120.5907252). Displaying the map on the index page shows the single marker for that user. However, when you repeatedly reload the index page, the marker changes its position - it's usually within a 1-2 block radius, but it almost always moves. So what's wrong here - the example app, the library, Google? Any ideas? This is obviously not reliable and I need the markers to accurately show positions on the map.

Thanks.

apneadiving commented 8 years ago

I dont know which version is used there but I introduced a small random offset (its off by default now) because in most cases, people had vague addresses with only city names so markers overlapped.

Tell me which version you use so I can help you more

rtomsmith commented 8 years ago

The gem version being used is 2.1.0.

apneadiving commented 8 years ago

ok then just upgrade to 2.1.2 :)

apneadiving commented 8 years ago

FYI, was changed in this commit: https://github.com/apneadiving/Google-Maps-for-Rails/commit/f30654e66e4dccf9ef20d08969fe506a24f39d03

rtomsmith commented 8 years ago

wow - ok, thanks.