API key for TSRE

[cnwfan]

[QUOTE=MSTS lifer;1940496]

Explained you on ET that this link is wrong because you have space inside it.[/



You might have explained it to him a few times he has a space when none should be, but it would help him and others with the problem if you posted how the link should read. At best people could copy/paste what you provided and see if that works.

Yes please explain how it should read because I even copied and pasted a post in that you provided the actual "correct" way of the URL! Please do not blame me when you provided the "right" way of the URL.

[hminky]

Just used my key and got this:

brooklyn.jpg

Used this link:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=Brooklyn+Bridge,New+York,NY&zoom=13&size=640x640&maptype=roadmap&key=YOUR_API_KEY

Harold

[cnwfan]

If we are having good key's there is a issue with TSRE map interface then Something is broken. Because route builders should have no issue pulling map over lays if keys are good. And we are.

[kapitaen]

If you mark the text you can easily see two blank characters

Screen Shot 10-04-18 at 04.42 PM.JPG

Here you can find the correct entry
https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showth...34#post1912034

I'm ashamed of your requests to Goku, you're hindering the further development.

[MSTS lifer]

If you mark the text you can easily see two blank characters [ATTACH=CONFIG]75271[/ATTACH]Here you can find the correct entryhttps://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showth...34#post1912034I'm ashamed of your requests to Goku, you're hindering the further development.

Yep, shows up.Todd, try this: http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center={lat},{lon}&zoom={zoom}&size={res }x{res}&maptype=satellite&key=I fixed the unneeded space.

[cnwfan]

Please delete thread! This is now going off topic about hindering development and nothing to do with topic!

[MSTS lifer]

[QUOTE=kapitaen;1940502]If you mark the text you can easily see two blank characters Screen Shot 10-04-18 at 04.42 PM.JPGHere you can find the correct entryhttps://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showth...34#post1912034Yes, there is a space. Honestly, a person will miss it the first few times and many may not even know that space should not be there. I even missed it and didn't see it until you pointed to the place. Google API keys are funny at times. Pending on the font used by Google, the letter "O" might look like the number "0". What I just typed one can see the difference between the two. Many times you can't. People who are not computer programmers or computer savoy probably don't know that spaces within a program, or in this case a internet web link usually spell trouble and don't work.

[NorthernWarrior]

Please delete thread! This is now going off topic about hindering development and nothing to do with topic!

Lets not have any more threads deleted/locked, there's been enough of that round here lately as it is.

If it can't be made to work, then it is still possible to use Google Earth to create markers and Route Riter to convert them. In itself that is an improvement on how we did things for several years in the beginning - taking actual grid references off real paper maps, converting into Lat/Lon then getting them into the arcane Route Editor ref format. No wonder my eyes are bad these days...

[haverfordwest]

Blimey Vern, you sound like old man Methuselah

Mike.

[ebnertra000]

Lets not have any more threads deleted/locked, there's been enough of that round here lately as it is.

If it can't be made to work, then it is still possible to use Google Earth to create markers and Route Riter to convert them. In itself that is an improvement on how we did things for several years in the beginning - taking actual grid references off real paper maps, converting into Lat/Lon then getting them into the arcane Route Editor ref format. No wonder my eyes are bad these days...

Yeah, this is getting to be a bit much, isn't it? But, actually, you don't have to convert marker files to make them work in TSRE. I use straight .gpx files, and TSRE is known to read .kml files, MSTS .mkr files, and I think one other format. While for some things a map overlay might be better, markers are plenty useful if used correctly. I typically use markers in conjunction with screenshots from google satellite images, and it has gotten me through some tricky ones

[eric]

Please delete thread! This is now going off topic about hindering development and nothing to do with topic!

No, we won't be deleting the thread over this... spaces in an expected URL will create errors.

[NorthernWarrior]

My view of Google overlay having used it in Railworks is that it can be sometimes be a distraction. Part of the fun of route building is taking what is on the ground and creating our own slightly warped vision of it. Streetview is still available where they have filmed the area and is more useful for seeing the actual buildings than the top down view.

Also this new Google policy has affected other sites that relied on an embedded overlay - such as the excellent US Abandoned Rails site which, without the maps, loses much of its value. The guy running that site Google wanted US$300 minimum, to continue the map service plug in which again is beyond the resources of people doing this as a hobby.

[cnwfan]

I still have no map even WITH THE copy and paste of the NEW URL and NO SPACES , good key.. Image1.jpg

That said while I want to use TSRE- I will not use a broken map layer of the program until we have a updated version with fixed map layer. Again I express that this has become very frustrating when I see other people that can use their copy fine and others have reported similar problems with map layer and still we have no fixes.

[scfe_fan]

Just sent you a PM.

Edit:
Upon looking at the screenshot in Todd's last message, it appears that part of the map actually did load, though I can't make out what that little error says.. Todd, what area are you trying to download maps for? I'd like to check to see if this is something specific to these Lat & Lon coordinates

[cnwfan]

Central Iowa. Dawson area to be specific