1. • CommentAuthorElvis
   • CommentTimeMar 25th 2007

    
   Why is the red line offset from the route described by the waymarks?
2. • CommentAuthorElvis
   • CommentTimeApr 13th 2007

    
   Changing my browser to Mozilla Firefox seems to have solved the problem.
3. •  
     CommentAuthorthanar
   • CommentTimeJun 30th 2007

    
   I am also facing this problem under Safari PPC for OS X. Works fine under Firefox and Safari Intel. Any clues?
4. •  
     CommentAuthorthanar
   • CommentTimeJun 30th 2007

    
   Guess what... Same offset on Safari for Windows... Must be an application-specific bug, but then again it doesn't explain why it would work on Safari Inter for OS X.
   
   Take a look using Safari beta for windows. Yes, I know, I was also surprised to see bikely work under such an incomplete product, but it does!
5. • CommentAuthorkrudnick
   • CommentTimeJul 3rd 2007

    
   I use firefox and have tried to get other friends to use bikely. However, most of the people in our club use Internet Explorer. I have been getting complaints about the "red line offset" which I have never seen (even if I pop up IE7 <don't have IE6>). Is this a universal problem? I hate to tell everyone to switch browsers (most aren't heavy computer users and this isn't easy). Every now and then, in firefox, I get a ghost straight red line streaking across the display which usually goes away when I zoom out one click. Is this at all related, possibly?
6. •  
     CommentAuthorKevin Pfeiffer
   • CommentTimeJul 3rd 2007

    
   What is the red line offset? Do you have a screen shot?
   
   I occasionally see tracks recorded with the GPS that appear offset a bit from the GoogleMaps roadways and I also see GoogleMap routes sometimes offset from the topographic images; these are GoogleMaps-related problems.
7. •  
     CommentAuthorJules
   • CommentTimeJul 3rd 2007

    
   Safari Windows is well broken in my experience - I get this "offset" as well.
   
   Interesting to hear about on PPC Mac - although I would expect to have heard about that long ago if it was a regular occurrence. Haven't been able to reproduce it on IE or Firefox at all.
8. • CommentAuthordmacmurc
   • CommentTimeJul 21st 2007 edited

    
   I have posted on Flickr three screen shots of my Shawnigan Lake 40 Km route that I hope will illustrate this problem.
   
   Preparing these files has made me realize that this is probably not so much an offset problem as a scaling problem with IE, although why the route line doesn't appear at all in FireFox is still a mystery to me.
   
   It would certainly be great to get this resolved, because for those of us who are still in a non-GPS universe, it greatly reduces the usefulness of the site (to merely terrific!)
9. •  
     CommentAuthorKevin Pfeiffer
   • CommentTimeJul 21st 2007

    
   Good work, DMacMurc! I think you are right, the Explorer overlay seems to be scaled (incorrectly) from an upper-left origin.
   
   I'm a GPS user, but I, too, find it frustrating that one can't print the maps with the route. I wonder if these bugs can/will be fixed or whether they are simply being ignored (you get what you pay for, as they say). :-)
   
   Hopefully your documentation will help to get this fixed (or at least identified as "non-fixable', if that is the case).
10. • CommentAuthordmacmurc
    • CommentTimeSep 6th 2008

     
    This has seemed to me to be a "can't fix" issue until I tried out Google Chrome, which prints the route line correctly - perhaps this indicates that there is something Google knows about the line creation process that they're not telling the other guys?

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