Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

In message , at 02:49:11
on Mon, 3 Mar 2014, remarked:
Does it have any
"link" function at all, or just an "unshortened link"?

Apparently not

Try this (from Google products forum):

Click on the settings icon.
Choose "Share or embed map" from the popup menu.
A dialog will show with "Share" tab selected.
Simply copy the URL or choose "Shorten url" and then copy.
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Roland Perry

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

wrote in message ...

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 09:16:51 on Sun, 2
Mar 2014, tim..... remarked:
There used to be a way to create a short link in Google Maps but
there doesn't seem to be one now (without logging in which I can't do).


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Works for me

click on the "link" button, check the "Short URL" box within the
popup dialogue

What "link" button? None here.

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The one that looks like a piece of chain link next to the one that
looks like a printer (in someone's world, anyway). They both have
"pop-up" tool tips telling you what they are for

When I click the "chain link" I get a dialogue with a box to tick to
get a short url.

Today, ticking that box does provide the shortened url as normal.

Yesterday it had no effect, with the long url remaining.

Must have been some sort of glitch.

(I'm not signed in).

I don't have any "chain link" or any other link which leads to any such
dialogue. I'm using Firefox on Windows 7.


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do you have the navigation panel open?

If not, do you have a little arrow (triangle) upper left with tool tip "show
panel".

I tried it on FF and can still see the link button with the panel open

tim


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Colin Rosenstiel

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 02:49:11 -0600,
wrote:

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
17:49:21 on Sun, 2 Mar 2014, remarked:
I don't have any "chain link" or any other link which leads to any
such dialogue. I'm using Firefox on Windows 7.

In Google Maps, under the Multicoloured Google logo what do you see?

I have buttons for "Get Directions", "My places" then printer icon
chain icon.

No Multicoloured Google logo at all. Did you see the screenshot I posted?

I have now. I've not seen that alternative skin. Does it have any
"link" function at all, or just an "unshortened link"?

Apparently not, hence my question. That lack is not the only annoyance from
the new format.


Do you have a Lite mode link at the bottom right?

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jhk

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
02:49:11 on Mon, 3 Mar 2014, remarked:
Does it have any
"link" function at all, or just an "unshortened link"?

Apparently not

Try this (from Google products forum):

Click on the settings icon.

What setting icon? There are two icons which don't explain themselves. One
(top left) returns to the map view if I click on it and the other (bottom
right) does nothing.

Choose "Share or embed map" from the popup menu.
A dialog will show with "Share" tab selected.
Simply copy the URL or choose "Shorten url" and then copy.


--
Colin Rosenstiel

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

In article ,
(Jarle Hammen Knudsen) wrote:

On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 02:49:11 -0600,
wrote:

In article ,
(Roland Perry) wrote:

In message , at
17:49:21 on Sun, 2 Mar 2014, remarked:
I don't have any "chain link" or any other link which leads to any
such dialogue. I'm using Firefox on Windows 7.

In Google Maps, under the Multicoloured Google logo what do you see?

I have buttons for "Get Directions", "My places" then printer icon
chain icon.

No Multicoloured Google logo at all. Did you see the screenshot I
posted?

I have now. I've not seen that alternative skin. Does it have any
"link" function at all, or just an "unshortened link"?

Apparently not, hence my question. That lack is not the only annoyance
from the new format.

Do you have a Lite mode link at the bottom right?

No. Did you look at my screenshot?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

In article ,
(tim.....) wrote:

wrote in message ...

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at 09:16:51 on Sun, 2
Mar 2014, tim..... remarked:
There used to be a way to create a short link in Google Maps but
there doesn't seem to be one now (without logging in which I can't
do).

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Works for me

click on the "link" button, check the "Short URL" box within the
popup dialogue

What "link" button? None here.

---------------------------------------------------------------------

The one that looks like a piece of chain link next to the one that
looks like a printer (in someone's world, anyway). They both have
"pop-up" tool tips telling you what they are for

When I click the "chain link" I get a dialogue with a box to tick to
get a short url.

Today, ticking that box does provide the shortened url as normal.

Yesterday it had no effect, with the long url remaining.

Must have been some sort of glitch.

(I'm not signed in).

I don't have any "chain link" or any other link which leads to any such
dialogue. I'm using Firefox on Windows 7.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

do you have the navigation panel open?

No. I haven't seen one since the new version of Google Maps appeared.

If not, do you have a little arrow (triangle) upper left with tool
tip "show panel".

There is an arrow in the top left but without a tool tip and if I click on
it it goes back to the map from street view. See my screenshot. I said it
was crap.

I tried it on FF and can still see the link button with the panel open

I can't get a panel in FF.

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Colin Rosenstiel

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

In message , at 19:18:57
on Mon, 3 Mar 2014, remarked:
Try this (from Google products forum):

Click on the settings icon.

What setting icon?

I don't know; I'm just repeating the advice that seemed to be well
received on that forum I mentioned.

There are two icons which don't explain themselves. One
(top left) returns to the map view if I click on it and the other (bottom
right) does nothing.

Choose "Share or embed map" from the popup menu.
A dialog will show with "Share" tab selected.
Simply copy the URL or choose "Shorten url" and then copy.

--
Roland Perry

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

On 01/03/2014 09:57, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at
01:49:02 on Sat, 1 Mar 2014, Offramp remarked:
A former London Underground station, used as a World War Two command
centre, has been sold for £53m.
...
The money from the sale will be put back into the defence budget...

Isn't £50m about ten minutes of defence budget?

(And a hundred yards of HS2 perhaps).

This sale has to be "political" in some way, ie demonstrating that
assets are being disposed of, however relatively trivial the sum.

Far better had it been leased out at a peppercorn rate to a museum, who
could probably then get lottery money to refurbish and open it.

You might not have noticed, but HMG are doing a fair bit of selling off
of property that's deemed no longer necessary.

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

On 02/03/2014 08:32, Roland Perry wrote:
[...]
Can we get back to the point though.

What have they sold:

a) the whole site
b) just the ground floor (in whatever way it's currently fitted out)
and below.
c) just the "below ground".

ps I'm sort of assuming they haven't sold the platform area and other
parts immediately adjacent to the line, on that level.

It's easy enough to look these things up, you know.

Inside MOD's tube station:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/inside-mods-tube-station

Disused tube station sells for £53 million:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/disused-tube-station-sells-for-53-million

The information you seek is all there.

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

Mizter T wrote:
On 01/03/2014 09:57, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at
01:49:02 on Sat, 1 Mar 2014, Offramp remarked:
A former London Underground station, used as a World War Two command
centre, has been sold for £53m.
...
The money from the sale will be put back into the defence budget...

Isn't £50m about ten minutes of defence budget?

(And a hundred yards of HS2 perhaps).

This sale has to be "political" in some way, ie demonstrating that
assets are being disposed of, however relatively trivial the sum.

Far better had it been leased out at a peppercorn rate to a museum, who
could probably then get lottery money to refurbish and open it.

You might not have noticed, but HMG are doing a fair bit of selling off
of property that's deemed no longer necessary.

Indeed, and apart from the sale proceeds, the activities involved in
constructing and occupying the new building will presumably generate
on-going tax proceeds (business rates, council tax, VAT, income tax,
corporation tax, etc). It will also provide more homes, though probably not
exactly "affordable" ones. Had it stayed in MoD ownership, it would have
needed maintenance and not generated any income.