Comments on: MapIt Plugin - Bringing Maps to Email & Contacts

by: Brad

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:59:12 +0000

Hi Jan,

There should be no extra dependencies for this plugin to work. Are you experiencing problems?

Cheers,

Brad

by: Jan

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:34:19 +0000

Could you please generally write down the requirement like php extensions and so on!

Thanks a lot, and you guys do a awesome job!!!

by: Brad

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:14:33 +0000

Hi Andy, it’s the period after the Ln that’s messing it up. I’m working on an improved algorithm that supports this and also is more flexible so as to match all of your examples and others. Look out for it in the next version of MapIt.

by: Brad

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:21:56 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Andy! I’ll test using the 2-pane view today and try to sort out the issue. I’ll also work on the regex that searches for addresses in emails. As you can imagine this first version uses a less flexible pattern, we’ll improve on it as we go. I’ll post updates here.

Cheers,

Brad

by: Andy Dills

Mon, 31 May 2010 14:55:53 +0000

Nice plugin! It works great for the addressbook, but I cannot get it to work very well for text embedded in emails.

It failed to recognize any of these attempts:

5744 Industry Ln. Frederick

5744 Industry Ln. Frederick, MD

5744 Industry Ln. Frederick Maryland

5744 Industry Ln. Frederick, MD 21703

5744 Industry Ln. Frederick 21703

5744 Industry Ln. 21703

However, it did successfully recognize the string you used above, “55 Second Ave New York”…however that had an issue as well: in 2-pane view (which we prefer to the 3-pane view), the popup box always displays to the left of the text, preventing me from seeing the map as it’s “hidden” by the folder pane.

In 3-pane view the popup box is properly displayed to the right of the link as in your example above.

This is with IE 8, what most of our customer base uses.

So, needs a little work, but excellent idea!