Any question answered...

I'd like some ideas of how to customize the directions given by google maps.

I plot a route then go to print and am presented with what is effectively a pretty good turn by turn route sheet but I'd still like to add notes at some points such as "towards Salisbury" as well as the road name or mark a land mark e.t.c. The add notes section just adds to the page in general and not where I want them at the relative turn.

The best way I've found is inspect element on chrome and add to the HTML but I can't always edit the bit I want to put the comment quite where I want. E.g I can alter some of the txt but I can't put in a new div tag. I have no knowledge of how the google chrome inspect element thing works as I have only done a minimal amount of HTML and all in a txt editor. I'm really ignorant in this area.

Any help gratefully received.

Copy and paste the directions into a text editor, add your own text?
That seems too simple, have I misunderstood you Tommy?

I tend to write directions by hand and use street view to look at junctions, then you can note down which signs to follow, or other distinguishing features.

^ but then all formatting is lost. I tend to only do use gmaps directions for long rides so it might be 3 or 4 pages worth, I think one of my rides last year was about 8 pages maybe more, not that it was some crazy long route but complicated plus street takes a long time and thank god does not do all roads..

Photo the screen, print and annotate

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/mymaps/create.html

Use Google Maps to:

Mark your favorite places on your map

** Draw lines and shapes to highlight paths and areas**
** Add your own text, photos, and videos**

Share your map with friends and family

http://maps.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=21670&topic=21676&answer=144364#text

Adding Rich Text or HTML Descriptions

By default the descriptions of your map items are in plain text. However, you can use rich text or HTML. To do this:

Create or open a map.
Click the appropriate placemark, line, shape. The info window appears.
Click Edit.
Choose Plain Text, Rich Text or Edit HTML.
To edit rich text descriptions, select the text and use the icons above the description field:

To use HTML descriptions, add HTML in the description field. Some HTML may be stripped from the description if it is considered unsafe or malicious.
Click OK to save your changes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TftFnot5uXw&feature=player_embedded#!

Nearly Hippster but I don't seem to beable to use the get direction part and edit or add to that. I can plot a route by hand and add all of my own direction but I just want to add to google maps directions. The actual map is irelavent it's the directions.

Does anyone know of a decent/cheap place to rent a minibus/van (for 8 people + bikes) that can be taken to Germany? Rental for 4-5 days.

Have a quote from one place, but looking to see if there is anything cheaper.

Anyone else constantly being logged off every 15 seconds?

Does anyone know of a decent/cheap place to rent a minibus/van (for 8 people + bikes) that can be taken to Germany? Rental for 4-5 days.

Have a quote from one place, but looking to see if there is anything cheaper.

place on brixton hill may mate used for car and van hire, he said they were quite cheeeep but not sure if they do mini bus's??
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/place?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=car+hire+brixton+hill&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=car+hire+brixton+hill&hnear=Lambeth+SE11&cid=673862754333586417

Where can I get a white Vittoria Zaffiro pro in central London - today? BLB and Evans don't have them...

Ok I have a program who's screen output I want to redirect to file. I've done this before and use

$myprog.out>>out.txt 2>&1

and for some reason this is not working. I test it with a another simple test program

$myprog.test>>out.txt 2>&1

and it works

I run myprog.out and the output goes to screen as usual but redirecting it seems to fail! It was working and now seems to have stopped WTF is going on!

Ok I have a program who's screen output I want to redirect to file. I've done this before and use

$myprog.out>>out.txt 2>&1

and for some reason this is not working. I test it with a another simple test program

$myprog.test>>out.txt 2>&1

and it works

I run myprog.out and the output goes to screen as usual but redirecting it seems to fail! It was working and now seems to have stopped WTF is going on!

You're redirecting STDERR to STDOUT with 2>&1.. maybe in the second case the program is writing to STDERR? Not sure what that would work..

Anyway, I think this is that you want:

myprog.out | tee out.txt

tee takes STDOUT and redirects to a file. If you also need STDERR output you can do

myprog.out 2>&1 | tee out.txt

What about just

[code]$ myprog.out >> out.txt [/code]

yep, that would do it.. for some reason I read that he wanted to redirect to file and write to STDOUT..

yep I want to redirect std out and std err. I'll give it ago thanks. It's very strange. I commented out a few print statements that I no longer wanted, recompiled and then band redirect does not work!!

nope that does not work!! something strange is going on!

weird.. I assume it does print to stdout when you don't try to redirect?

That's the weird thing if I just do

$./ myprog.out

I get all of my output to the console. I've wasted an afternoon on this fucking bullshit.

you using bash right?

if you can reproduce it w/ little a stand alone program, paste it up to gist.github.com i'll see if it happens on my machine and see if I can sort.. Never seen that problem..

This is the problem my test program dose not have this problem all works well. It's only my massive program that has the problem. I've removed all .o files and recompiled just incase there is some stupid error like that but it's bizzar. I've had another idea I'm just going to look at.

Hahaha facepalm

is 9 p.m. too early to go to bed?

no its not ............. night night

thanks. I'm out.

I might go to bed in approx 20 minutes, in my defence I was up late writing my proposal, and then up early this morning to deliver it.

Pipe and slippers ahoy!