Google overlay - mystery location?

[sweep54]

I don't know if anyone has had any similar issue with Google overlay and knows how to rectify the problem that I have. I have been creating my own route from scratch based on a real world location in the UK and up until recently have been very happy using this new function to layout the route. However very recently when I opened my route to continue my work the Google overlay worked but displayed some totally unknown and unrelated region which is obviously of no use whatsoever to me. Everything else seems okay. I have logged out, rebooted, etc and the same still occurs regardless. This has turned me from an enthusiastic builder into someone rapidly losing interest as it would appear that all the hard work I have put in has become a burden to sort out rather than enjoy and expand.
Can anyone enlighten me with a solution - I would be very grateful.
Thanks,
Sweep

[skoda]

If you have a backup of the route check the Latitude and longitude haven't changed compared to a previous version ?
I've found cloning a route in the main TS2014 program has a tendency to reset the Lat lon back to 0.00000 .

I've not experienced this problem when I've cloned a route in RWTools .

[sweep54]

Thanks for the reply. I have checked my route and it appears that the route origin has moved from where I set it, but not reset to zero - it has an origin now at Chester Le Street for some reason. I cloned my route on several occasions during its creation so that I could go back to a previous version if needed but it appears to have happened to them all. Is it possible to reset this back again or am I facing a restart.

Sweep

[DocklandsProject]

From my experience, you can do as much cross-referencing with various maps as you like. Enter the exact co-ords you think are correct, and it will plonk you somewhere else.

[sweep54]

The frustrating thing about it is that I have been using the google overlay for several months in my route with it showing the world accurately as I would expect but for it to suddenly overnight display a totally different map area is a bit baffling. I was hoping this was a known issue with a known remedy. As it seems to have randomly changed my location (as far as Google is concerned) is it possible to manually change it back by modifying a file?
Sweep

[skoda]

It's possible but you will need to know your original exact route co-ordinates .

*** Before attempting this I strongly recommend cloning the route first just in case you make a mistake and note that the entries shown on here will be different on your route .***

If you open up your routes , RouteProperties.xml file (I use RWTools) and scroll down you'll find an entry similar to this :

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	<MapProjection>
		<cMapProjectionOwner d:id="136768304">
			<MapProjection>
				<cUTMMapProjection d:id="671315240">
					<Origin>
						<sGeoPosition>
							<Lat d:type="sFloat64" d:alt_encoding="13F241CF66C54A40" d:precision="string">53.5422</Lat>
							<Long d:type="sFloat64" d:alt_encoding="72A774B0FE0F05C0" d:precision="string">-2.63281</Long>
						</sGeoPosition>
					</Origin>
					<MapOffset>
						<sMapCoords>
							<Easting d:type="sFloat64" d:alt_encoding="9A99999919C3D740" d:precision="string">24332.4</Easting>
							<Northing d:type="sFloat64" d:alt_encoding="000000809AA15641" d:precision="string">5.93265e+006</Northing>
						</sMapCoords>
					</MapOffset>
					<ZoneNumber d:type="sInt32">30</ZoneNumber>
					<ZoneLetter d:type="cDeltaString">U</ZoneLetter>
				</cUTMMapProjection>
			</MapProjection>
		</cMapProjectionOwner>
	</MapProjection>

It's these entries you need to amend to your original co-ordinates :

<Lat d:type="sFloat64" d:alt_encoding="13F241CF66C54A40" d:precision="string">53.5422</Lat>
<Long d:type="sFloat64" d:alt_encoding="72A774B0FE0F05C0" d:precision="string">-2.63281</Long>

Save the .xml fire and fire up the route to see if has worked ?
I'm still learning the finer points of route production so there is probably a simpler way to do this , But I did rescue a route using this method after I cloned it in the main TS2014 program and it set my lat long back to 0.00000 .

[sweep54]

Thank you Skoda for your time, I'll certainly have a look at doing that and hopefully normal service will be resumed.

Sweep