Biblical Places - Links to Google Maps not formatted correctly (German OS)

In biblical places usually are two links to google maps:

One in the menu bar containing the actual cursor position (display format xx° xx' xx'' N yy° yy' yy'' E) which functions as expected and a second one in the text description of the biblical place (display format 31,7774N, 35,2349E for Jerusalem). The second one doesn't work, because google maps expects a full stop instead of a comma (correct format would be 31.7774N, 35.2349E).

My suspect is that logos4 uses a localized format for decimal fractions which is not correct in this case.

May I also suggest that the web pages for google maps and wikipedia should be user customizable (e. g. de.wikipedia.org instead of en.wikipedia.org).

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Sean Boisen

Marcus:

I appreciate your suggestion about making the links customizable. That may be possible for the Google Maps links (which are generated dynamically). But the Wikipedia links are not dynamic: we went to a lot of manual effort to collect them (if you Open Biblical People to Abel, you'll see the Wikipedia article it links to is "Cain and Abel", so it's not just matching strings). The English Wikipedia page links to various other language versions, but i don't think we can maintain all that data internally: it makes more sense to me to let Wikipedia handle that part.

Sean

David Schwegler (Faithlife)

My suspect is that logos4 uses a localized format for decimal fractions which is not correct in this case.

You are absolutely right! We were creating the Google maps link in your current locale (which replaced the periods with commas). This will be fixed in beta 7.

David