'Only me' not working on google maps at low zooms.

[i_do_dew]

Hello,

I did this under tiger mapping quite often, and it still works even if the map background isn't working. As you can see in the Tiger version Toronto, NYC and Cleveland and much of Boston are completely missing. but the Google version still has everything plotted. For the curious my screen res is 2048x1536

Under TIGER Mapping, after I get the map to the area I want to map, I link to the map so it wont move when I select the filter.
This is that link:
https://wigle.net/gps/gps/BMap/onlinema ... 70.1578125
Then I select "First Discovered By Me", and Filter to get:
https://wigle.net/gps/gps/BMap/onlinema ... ter=Filter
which gives me this picture as a result:

Tiger_onlyme_graphic

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Following the same process under google based maps, I start with this link
https://wigle.net/gps/gps/Map/onlinemap ... 0000-00000
Then I select "First Discovered By Me", and Update to get:
https://wigle.net/gps/gps/Map/onlinemap ... &mapzoom=7
and this is a picture of the result (rather heavily cropped and compressed to fit under file limit):

google_onlyme_graphic

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[uhtu]

hrm.
that's probably a hangup on the edge of our various datasets (the non-google map engines are limited by our available map data, and the transitions on international borders can be tricky)

we'll have a looksee, and hopefully can fix it.
thanks for the detailed report!

-uhtu

[i_do_dew]

My point was that I am still seeing all of the data in Google when I select 'only me'. AP's in Toronto should not show up on my only me map in Google -- I've never been there. The linked tiger image shows my actual 'only me' mapped points I would expect something similar on Google.

[uhtu]

ah, i misunderstood.

when i follow your directions, logged in as me, i only get my points for the eastern Mid-atlantic US area.
there may be a caching issue. which browser are you trying this with?

[i_do_dew]

Firefox 3.6.6 and 3.6.8.

When I click the update button, the page reloads the map is blank, and then all of the points are filled in exactly the way they were before I selected show only mine. eg showing everything. I also find that the google maps are more cluttered with background items but that is because what they are...google maps.

Is there any reason why you dont interface with Open Street Map instead of Google? Their maps are open source so you don't have Google copyright notices on every image.

[i_do_dew]

It turns out that I'm not seeing 'only me' data at any zoom. normally if I am doing close in mapping, I'm using jigle instead of the web interface. I was browsing with the only me option enabled and the google map wasn't removing non me data even when I clicked onto newly displaying areas so Im not sure how it is a caching issue unless google always does the full set in an area and then removes points which don't apply.

[i_do_dew]

I've narrowed this down to a FireFox issue of some kind. It works properly under IE8, which I use only for testing because of its known vulnerability issues.