Technical Forum

I was just reading a comment on a members page mentioning VT maps. I have searched all over the homepage and my homepage, yet I can find no link to the VT maps mentioned. The only maps I can see are the personal travel maps. Undoubtedly, I am just being technically challenged as usual, but could someone give me a clue where to access them?

Thanks in advance,

fergy.

If you are challenged, then I am too. :-(

I only know about personal travel maps. I believe one can 'export' these somewhere, somehow......but as I have nowhere (and no desire) to do said exportation I can help no further.

Know of no other maps.

Go to any destination like paris

Next to the main photo at the top, there is a link for a map. Click it :)

Gosh!

I knew I was technologically illiterate....all these years on VT and I'd never noticed!

Thanks, G. :-)

Good to know. However, I tried it out and the links on the right hand side of the page for top cities in France, etc. don't go anywhere and the ERROR message comes up down on the bottom of the screen.

can you tell me what location you were looking for?

Nice one, G, thanks very much. I am like leics, all these years and I had never seen that.

I was looking for Suceava in Romania and I have found it now.

Thanks again.

fergy.

Great....we have to fix the links of the pinpoints on the map, but the map itself works welL!

G, I just tried with Paris, the map came up but as Richie says (he's no longer connected) there is no response from the links on the right hand side.

Great...thanks for checking it out. We'll update that map at some point.

From my experience, some of those side links went goofy about the same time as the "nearby locations" went into hiding. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but that's how it seemed to me .

OK. You're a conspiracy theorist ;)

I knew it!!

But where have the "Nearby Locations" gone? I am really worried about them - I was very fond of them and they kept my geography up to speed.

take it away pam...

(they are on subsequent pages for a destination)

Barbara, if you go to a location Travel Guide page, then click on "Things to Do"; "Nightlife"; "Local Customs" etc, then scroll down on the right side of the page, you can find "Locations nearby".
If the location has no tips built, then you can't find this feature.

You learn something new every day! Thanks Pam.

I can't claim accolades as others found it long before me :-)

The one major drawback to these interactive maps is that they can't be copied and pasted to take with.

I do, I use Screenprint :-)

What is screen print and how do you use it?

Well it's not ideal, but it is one way around not being able to save.
You open the map, and use:
Ctrl + Prt Scr - to basically copy the entire screen in front of you.
Alt + Prt Scr - to copy the popup, eg the map

(These take prints of what you see, including the browswer outers , whatever is visible on your screen. So anything that you will need to scroll down to view won't be included in the image).

Open a programme, such as "PAINT" , then paste the image into a new opened page.

If you don't know where PAINT is, try this:

START > Programs > Accessories> PAINT.

Then be careful how you save it. I recommend you save it as JPEG, to keep it's size manageable.
The PrtScrn key is found near the top right side of the keyboard. Of course all this is Microsoft. Not sure how to do it in Mac.

Thanks. Have copied and pasted your instructions :)
Will give it a try.

ok good luck :-) email if you need help.

Pam - Thanks for your help in finding Lost Locations !

Thank King G, not me LOL ;-)
He go sick of me complaining and showed me where to look hahahaha.