Brian , I had a picture but now it’s gone ...
Dakazman
Not guilty your honour !
I've not touched the map other than dropping in to see if there are any obvious errors (people claiming to be in the middle of the Pacific for example) and I can only think that it's been accidentally deleted. With completely free write access to anyone picking up the link, that's always a risk.
Looking at the way it's grown, perhaps it's time to formalise the way it works. Now I'm new to this Google Map thing, so bear with me because I'm making this up as I go along.
I've just made a backup copy of the Europa Map, and this one is private so only I can edit/view it. That seems to work so if you add your photo again, I'll create another backup. There's going to be a limit to the storage space but I've nothing else on that account's drive so it should be good for at least a weekly backup, rolling over every month ?
With any luck that should sort out any fat finger editing but it would struggle with someone outside the group making a concerted effort to mess it up.
I don't have any problem with changing the permissions to "view only" and adding folks by PM request. As you've all seen, it's no big deal to add a pointer with a few details and photo so I'm not going to be losing sleep over that job. I'd prefer to let folks do their own thing, but if we do get problems due to the current access permissions then it's an option. I'm no IT geek but even I can see it's open to mischievous hacking by someone outside the group who's bored.
Next thought is to PM Joe and see if we can tidy up the current Stickie in "Members Cars" and get this added at the top. We shouldn't really have two threads on the same topic and the details/map listed in the original Stickie is no longer viable (without paying).
Any views ? all ideas welcome.
Brian
