VirtualEarth Mashups no longer working

I struggled with creating a mashup today using Virtual earth after having already done a few. When I went in to my existing ones that worked I discovered none are showing pushpins anymore. Looks like something is broke.

Thanks

[239 byte] By [MichaelGannotti] at [2008-1-4]
# 1

My mashups with Virtual Earth work fine.

Try closing all browser windows and try again, that may help.

Gert

GertVanWaelvelde at 2007-10-3 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly Bugs and Suggestions...
# 2

Michael, are you still seeing problems?

When you drop the VE block on the mashup designer, do you get the background map on the designer itself (before you go into the Preview mode)?

ParameshVaidyanathan at 2007-10-3 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly Bugs and Suggestions...
# 3
Yes I get the background map
MichaelGannotti at 2007-10-3 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly Bugs and Suggestions...
# 4
Just to check the pushpins aren't appearing off the coast of west africa are they? At 0,0 as that may be a symptom of a block failing to resolve a location to a long/lat or not parsing a feed correctly etc.
AndyS at 2007-10-3 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly Bugs and Suggestions...
# 5
I switched from supplying latitude and longitude to supplying the name a comma then the whole address all in the title. This seems to work well (see http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/silverlight1/PopflyMashups/FloridaFamilyTrip.aspx ) Only issue I now see is at one point a reader opened it and only saw the map, then yesterday the pushpins were there but only the title data was rendering through and now today everything appears to be rendering (pushpins, Title, description).
MichaelGannotti at 2007-10-3 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly Bugs and Suggestions...
# 6
This evening the map would appear but none of the data. Appears to randomly work and then not.
MichaelGannotti at 2007-10-3 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly Bugs and Suggestions...
# 7

Hi Michael,

This sounds like an intermittent problem with the underlying data source (in this case sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg). I tried this with your URL above, and also through ripping and previewing the underlying mashup at:

http://www.popfly.ms/shell.aspx?projectType=mashup#MichaelGannotti|FamilyFloridaTrip

Both ways look fine right now.

In order to get more detail on this I turned on the console (Show Console before Preview) and got the following output. If you could look at the console output when this is failing, perhaps we can hone in on exactly what is going wrong.

CONSOLE OUTPUT

Outputting a single item...
RSS:
rss: Calling getItems("http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/pd/_layouts/listfeed.aspx?List=%7B77C4F818%2DC819%2D4F44%2D84D9%2DD697C78EEF76%7D")...
Getting XML from http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/pd/_layouts/listfeed.aspx?List=%7B77C4F818%2DC819%2D4F44%2D84D9%2DD697C78EEF76%7D...
The call to http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/pd/_layouts/listfeed.aspx?List=%7B77C4F818%2DC819%2D4F44%2D84D9%2DD697C78EEF76%7D returned successfully.
GeoNames:
geonames: Calling getLatitudeAndLongitude("Walt Disney World Resort, 7100 Municipal Dr, Orlando, FL 32819")...
Getting XML from http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=Walt%20Disney%20World%20Resort%2C%207100%20Municipal%20Dr%2C%20Orlando%2C%20FL%2032819&maxRows=1&Style=Full&country=us...
geonames: Calling getLatitudeAndLongitude("Marineland, 9600 Oceanshore Blvd., St. Augustine, Fl 32080")...
Getting XML from http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=Marineland%2C%209600%20Oceanshore%20Blvd.%2C%20St.%20Augustine%2C%20Fl%2032080&maxRows=1&Style=Full&country=us...
geonames: Calling getLatitudeAndLongitude("Casa Monica Hotel, 95 Cordova St., St. Augustine, FL 32084")...
Getting XML from http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=Casa%20Monica%20Hotel%2C%2095%20Cordova%20St.%2C%20St.%20Augustine%2C%20FL%2032084&maxRows=1&Style=Full&country=us...
geonames: Calling getLatitudeAndLongitude("Renaissance Charleston Hotel Historic District, 68 Wentworth Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29401")...
Getting XML from http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=Renaissance%20Charleston%20Hotel%20Historic%20District%2C%2068%20Wentworth%20Street%2C%20Charleston%2C%20South%20Carolina%2029401&maxRows=1&Style=Full&country=us...
The call to http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=Walt%20Disney%20World%20Resort%2C%207100%20Municipal%20Dr%2C%20Orlando%2C%20FL%2032819&maxRows=1&Style=Full&country=us returned successfully.
Waiting for 3 calls to GeoNames...
The call to http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=Marineland%2C%209600%20Oceanshore%20Blvd.%2C%20St.%20Augustine%2C%20Fl%2032080&maxRows=1&Style=Full&country=us returned successfully.
Waiting for 2 calls to GeoNames...
The call to http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=Casa%20Monica%20Hotel%2C%2095%20Cordova%20St.%2C%20St.%20Augustine%2C%20FL%2032084&maxRows=1&Style=Full&country=us returned successfully.
Waiting for a call to GeoNames...
The call to http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=Renaissance%20Charleston%20Hotel%20Historic%20District%2C%2068%20Wentworth%20Street%2C%20Charleston%2C%20South%20Carolina%2029401&maxRows=1&Style=Full&country=us returned successfully.
Virtual Earth:
virtualEarth: Calling addPushpin("28.4595", "-81.4738", "", "Walt Disney World Resort, 7100 Municipal Dr, Orlando, FL 32819", "<div class=ExternalClassA3EDBF820FC54359806A4E36DBF3232F> <div>While at Disney World will meet up with our friends the Gorman family..</div> <div>June 18th – 23rd – Arrive around 12 noon at Disney World - <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/resorts/resortLanding?id=BeachClubResortLandingPage&count=2">Beach Club Resort</a> – While there go to <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/parkLanding?id=MKLandingPage">Magic Kingdom</a>, <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/parkLanding?id=EPLandingPage">Epco</a>t, <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/parkLanding?id=MGMLandingPage">Disney-MGM Studios</a> and <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/parkLanding?id=AKLandingPage">Disney Animal Kingdom Park</a>, <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/parkLanding?id=TLLandingPage">Typhoon Lagoon</a> ( <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/attractionDetail?id=SharkReefAttractionPage">Sharks Reef</a>… swim with the sharks) – Depart the 23rd. </div></div>")...
virtualEarth: Calling addPushpin("29.8364", "-81.2745", "", "Marineland, 9600 Oceanshore Blvd., St. Augustine, Fl 32080", "<div class=ExternalClassD3C5D935BF3947F9A9D8456959B4860B> <div>Sam and I swimming with the Dolphins at 11:00 am on June 17th. :-)</div> <div><a href="http://www.marineland.net/">Marineland</a></div></div>")...
virtualEarth: Calling addPushpin("29.9027", "-81.3333", "", "Casa Monica Hotel, 95 Cordova St., St. Augustine, FL 32084", "<div class=ExternalClass304CB657A7234DBC8BADF838FEF4BED0> <div>Visit St Augustine. Sam and I heading to Marineland to swim with the dolphins. Tracy and Mary to hit the spa. Then whole family to the beach and then the old city at night.</div> <div>June 16th- 18th – Arrive around 1pm in St. Augustine FL - <a href="http://www.casamonica.com/default.asp">Casa Monica Hotel</a> – Swim with the Dolphins on the 17th at <a href="http://www.marineland.net/">Marineland</a> – Depart the Monday morning the 18th.</div></div>")...
virtualEarth: Calling addPushpin("32.7793", "-79.9372", "", "Renaissance Charleston Hotel Historic District, 68 Wentworth Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29401", "<div class=ExternalClass10F1AE89AC874E3B96C6CAFB71C73E4F> <div>See the sites in old section of Charleston.</div> <div>June 15th - 16th – Arrive around 12 noon in Charleston SC - <a href="http://marriott.com/hotels/travel/chsbr-renaissance-charleston-hotel-historic-district/">Renaissance Charleston Hotel</a> – Historic District – Depart Charleston the morning of the 16th.</div></div>")...
virtualEarth: Calling setMapView(29.851, -81.265, "", "", -90, "")...

RealHeartMozart[msft] at 2007-10-3 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly Bugs and Suggestions...