Arggggh. put Google maps URL weirdness

[Gerry]

That's it! I actually jumped out of bed to try that, and found your message suggesting the same thing!

Phew. Thanks for your response!

Gerry

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On Friday, 11 March 2011 at 10:05 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: 
> Haven't tried, but I always use parentheses with URL, so try
> 
> put url ("http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?center="& fld "place"& "&zoom=8&size=512x512&maptype=roadmap&sensor=false") into someimage
> 
> 
> -- Alex.
> 
> On 11/03/2011 10:55, Gerry wrote:
> > This works:
> > 
> > put url "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=canberra&zoom=8&size=512x512&maptype=roadmap&sensor=false" into someimage
> > put someimage into image 1
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > But when I use the text in a field in building the url it breaks - I get a "bad request 400 error" from the Google server:
> > 
> > put url "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?center="& fld "place"& "&zoom=8&size=512x512&maptype=roadmap&sensor=false" into someimage
> > put someimage into image 1
> > 
> > What am I missing? When I write the string out to the message box and then paste that into the url field in my browser, it works fine.
> > 
> > Argggh.
> > 
> > Gerry
> > 
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