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shogun

Aug-17-2005, 07:13 PM

The new maps feature is great! However there are a couple of extra features that would be nice to go with it:

#1 The ability to set a default 'home' location so I dont have to scroll all the way from somewhere in California to find the locations I usually am.

#2 The ability to easily set the same location for all images in a gallery.

shogun

Aug-17-2005, 07:36 PM

Andy

Aug-17-2005, 07:38 PM

Ok now that i've played with it a little more it seems #2 might not really be neccesary but #1 would definantly be very helpful...

thanks for your feedback, shogun :thumb

pumpkin

Aug-17-2005, 08:28 PM

thanks for your feedback, shogun :thumb

how about being able to input the direction we were facing too? :P that way someone could really copy our photos :)

dem

Aug-18-2005, 05:11 PM

The new maps feature is great!
It sure is. Thanks, guys.

shogun

Aug-18-2005, 07:47 PM

Another quick issue, why is it that from http://maps.smugmug.com/ any search you do will return the same 150 results based around San Francisco?

Baldy

Aug-18-2005, 10:34 PM

xian

Aug-19-2005, 12:18 AM

I like the map feature, but living in a part of the world that is not covered very well, it would be even nicer if

1) As stated before, a home location for user or gallery is certainly my number one missing feature.
2) It would be nice to use longitute/latitude to jump in the map. Then use clicking to the exact location. Sometimes one knows a position in the neighborhood, but not the exact one. (Address cannot be used for the place I live in).
3) If a certain "scale" is not available, automatically show one that is available. Now one has to move the scale slider manually.
4) When a visitor clicks the 'map this' button, she gets a list of all pictures, but have to navigate again to find the "original" picture. This is rather annoying, especially since the order in the map screen is not the same as in the gallery.

But overall maps is a very good 1.0 !

Maki

Aug-25-2005, 06:21 PM

As you've probably noticed, maps.smugmug.com is a little bit slow. They are fairly large images and we have to wait for Google's servers. So we're showing the latest 150 uploaded so it doesn't get intolerable wrt speed.

We've received about 2,000 geomapped photos now and apparently the last bunch have all been from the San Francisco Bay Area.
Cool.. It was driving me up the wall to see inconsistancies of what pictures were mapped! Is there any way of posting some text on the maps indicating the current limitation so that the viewers would know what's going on?

limbik

Aug-26-2005, 10:51 AM

I added geography info to a photo as a test, and made sure it was enabled in the gallery, but when I browse the gallery there is no geography info. :dunno

Also, searching by address rarely finds anything. But other than that, the maps are great, a bit slow at the moment, but great. :thumb

dem

Aug-26-2005, 11:01 AM

I added geography info to a photo as a test, and made sure it was enabled in the gallery, but when I browse the gallery there is no geography info.
It won't show if the gallery is private.

More specifically, it appears that it won't show if you add the information while the gallery is private, even if you subsequently make the gallery public. You need to re-add the geography data (at least to one photo; I've only been tagging one photo per gallery with geo data). A minor inconvenience.

Richard

Aug-26-2005, 11:09 AM

It won't show if the gallery is private.

More specifically, it appears that it won't show if you add the information while the gallery is private, even if you subsequently make the gallery public. You need to re-add the geography data (at least to one photo; I've only been tagging one photo per gallery with geo data). A minor inconvenience. Are you sure of that? I was trying it out for the first time yesterday and didn't know about the private gallery gotcha till I searched the support forum. I could be wrong, but I think I entered the data when the gallery was private and it still worked when I switched it to public. :scratch:scratch

dem

Aug-26-2005, 11:15 AM

Are you sure of that? I was trying it out for the first time yesterday and didn't know about the private gallery gotcha till I searched the support forum. I could be wrong, but I think I entered the data when the gallery was private and it still worked when I switched it to public. :scratch:scratch
I'm sure I saw the behavior I described, but perhaps if I'd waited longer after making the gallery public I wouldn't have needed to re-add the data.

limbik

Aug-26-2005, 11:27 AM

It has been public the whole time. :scratch

Richard

Aug-26-2005, 11:37 AM

It has been public the whole time. :scratch Maybe all the photos in a gallery need the geo-info for the feature to kick in? :rolleyes

limbik

Aug-26-2005, 12:23 PM

Maybe all the photos in a gallery need the geo-info for the feature to kick in? :rolleyes
This is really a stumper... There is only one photo in this gallery, and it has the geo info. :scratch

DoctorIt

Aug-26-2005, 01:21 PM

Ok now that i've played with it a little more it seems #2 might not really be neccesary but #1 would definantly be very helpful...Another vote for having a home location. I've been slowly adding geo info to my best travel photos, and its a real PITA to start from San Fran everytime... well, except for that one travel photo I had in CA :D

Also, whats up with Google having such poor worldwide support? I don't even mean for satellite, I mean for regular old maps. It doesn't even show cities like Frankfurt and Innsbruck in Germany! Not very world considerate of us, eh? :wxwax

Richard

Aug-26-2005, 01:30 PM

Also, whats up with Google having such poor worldwide support? I don't even mean for satellite, I mean for regular old maps. It doesn't even show cities like Frankfurt and Innsbruck in Germany! Not very world considerate of us, eh? :wxwax Amen! Curiously, they have pretty good resolution satellite photos of Madrid but no map of Spain at all. :dunno I guess when you release a new product every week, you have to cut some corners.

Matthew Saville

Aug-26-2005, 01:42 PM

This is really a stumper... There is only one photo in this gallery, and it has the geo info. :scratch
Yes, the gallery must be public and if you mapped it while it was private, you must delete the coordinates, click update, and then go back in and re-enter them. The same applies to if you had "google earth" disabled in the gallery customization, you can't map a pic with it off and then turn it on... But it seems that this isn't your problem? Have you tried going to "map this!" from your main page? That seems to work the best for me...

And YES PLEASE, I don't need to see smugmug HQ every time I go to map a photo. Can we at least zoom out to the whole US? That would be awesome... And I know that the zoom is "averaged" for when people click "map this!" from our sites, but I have a lot of photos that fall outside this average, it seems. It'd be great to be able to force the tool to take people to a map that shows ALL my photos...

Thanks, and WOW this is a mind-bogglingly cool tool!

-Matt-

DoctorIt

Aug-29-2005, 04:28 AM

I guess when you release a new product every week, you have to cut some corners.:lol3

Let's hope they come back to make a few upgrades at some point.

Andy

Aug-29-2005, 04:33 AM

And YES PLEASE, I don't need to see smugmug HQ every time I go to map a photo. Can we at least zoom out to the whole US? That would be awesome... And I know that the zoom is "averaged" for when people click "map this!" from our sites, but I have a lot of photos that fall outside this average, it seems. It'd be great to be able to force the tool to take people to a map that shows ALL my photos...

Thanks, and WOW this is a mind-bogglingly cool tool!

-Matt-

matthew, please put this in the feature requests thread, and also email to help@smugmug.com with the subject: feature request/change

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