High Sierra Topix

Glad the fixes worked BSquared and SirBC.

@SirBC, we rarely ban by IP explicitly, but the forum software does have checks against 3rd party spam databases (within which the IP address posted in your screenshot is found). I made a small change to the threshold here, but if spam starts to return will have to set it back - I'm reluctant to lift any of these checks entirely for fear of going back to the dark ages of needing to delete hundreds of spam posts a day. I'll also mention @ERIC here to see if he has any ideas off the top of his head.

It is unfortunate that, like so many things in life, a select few whom abuse VPN IPs basically ruin it for the rest of us. As Greg points out, we recently did have the blacklist feature disabled while the site was updated, and the increase in spam activity was insane.

This isn't really a "broken" issue, it's a "how-to" issue: how do I pick coordinates off the map? I'd like to mark some cross-country passes on my paper USGS quads, and while I can certainly estimate visually where the mark should go, it'd be a lot better (OK, well maybe just "cooler" )to have a lat/lon or UTM coordinates to go on.

Looks like Lat/Long are in the URL associated with the pass.

example: Ritter / Banner Saddle

http://www.highsierratopix.com/high-sie ... =2&zoom=14

Russ, are you looking at the gray-background stuff at the bottom of the map? That does seem to do the trick, and it's the only coordinates I see when I click on your link (but it is there, in each of the three link codes). It's also pretty far off when I type it in to Caltopo, but I haven't checked to see whether they are supposed to be using the same datum.

I'm looking at the URL in the address bar at the top. The gray bars at the bottom contain the same info though with a bit of variation. I zoom in on the area I want, pick that and read off the Lat/Lon.

lat=37.691976794116&long=-119.1982146803

Is that not the info you want?

Ah, didn't look there. Yes, that's it, but see my edit above. Wonder why the two are different?

Greg will have to answer that one.

Never mind; it appears to be an issue with the location of that specific pass. I looked at a couple of others, and they line up perfectly on CalTopo

Greg,

Maybe you already know about this, but the map is showing the same error reported last September by mort. The map was working fine last week, but now it's showing as broken and various layers such as the topo are not available. I see this with Chrome and IE.

Ed