Map this - Google Map is broken. Only terrain showing, no other choices like sat. images.

Not broken, new. Google changed up so many things on their Maps deal with us that we switched Map providers. We'll have a blog post soon and we also have some neat maps improvement underway as well.

Originally Posted by Andy Not broken, new. Google changed up so many things on their Maps deal with us that we switched Map providers. We'll have a blog post soon and we also have some neat maps improvement underway as well.

Without the satellite image it's kind of useless in a lot of cases.

Edit: actually find it very useless for pin pointing bird locations. No reference to anything shown.
http://maps.smugmug.com/?feedType=ge...1980954_3Hs8R4

What a mess... things are falling apart, all the good things change or disappear.

Give - us - back - our - maps - incl. - satellite !

Originally Posted by DeVerm What a mess... things are falling apart, all the good things change or disappear. Give - us - back - our - maps - incl. - satellite !

http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=1753601&postcount=2

Originally Posted by Andy http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=1753601&postcount=2

Ya might have missed the most important question, WILL there be satellite images?

Originally Posted by Allen Ya might have missed the most important question, WILL there be satellite images?

Al, and all - please stay tuned

Originally Posted by Andy http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=1753601&postcount=2

http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=1753608&postcount=3

Now, with Satellite view - click the icon upper right on your map.

Originally Posted by Andy Now, with Satellite view - click the icon upper right on your map.

Great! Thanks. But sure is degraded from what we were use to.

Any chance of hybrid view? Aerial and roads? Zooming in aerial all labels/roads are lost.
Also it does not zoom in as much as GoogleEarth did. About 2-3 zooms short.

Originally Posted by Andy Now, with Satellite view - click the icon upper right on your map.

I appreciate the effort Andy, but with the path you're on, it's never gonna be good IMHO. Here's an example, this is the view of a gallery using Google imagery:


Now the exact same view on SmugMug:


Pretty horrible, right? The worst thing is that the resolution is so low that this Smugmug view is zoomed in as far as it will go (becomes greyed out one click further zoomed in), while the Google view zooms in until I see the sheep grazing on the hills of this vulcano where I am now.

Please increase your prices and pay Google from the extra income

Thanks for the feedback, Al and Nick, we really appreciate it

Well, did a few fotoshoots last weeks and one with geotagging, and I was very dissapointed with the map-provider. Good the see that it's not only europe that has poor sattelite resolution / color / zoom, but that it's a global thing. And that's not good. Well, hope this will be sorted out somehow. Nick's post says it all.
SmugMug is a great site, with high standards, but this map thing is well below any standard. Better not to offer it, then offering this.

Even worse if you want to zoom in.

Smugmug at max resolution:


Google at max resolution:


That may not be broken to you, but it doesn't work for me.

Definitely a big downgrading in the quality and this is not in line with your history of continuous improvement….
I would suggest to keep up with the Google map's changes or to find a new, better, provider!!

Thank you.

Originally Posted by Adriano61 Definitely a big downgrading in the quality and this is not in line to your history of continuous improvement…. I would suggest to keep up with the Google map's changes or to find a new, better, provider!! Thank you.

Thanks for the feedback - we wish that Google didn't make it so hard for us to continue to use them :(

You need to stop blaming this on Google. Adobe is able to work just fine with Google Maps in LR, so this is a solvable problem. Even Flickr's maps are better.

This isn't a Google problem. It's a SmugMug problem.

Originally Posted by letrout This isn't a Google problem. It's a SmugMug problem.

Well, you don't have all the details, do you

Now I was wondering: through the Smugmug RSS feeds, I've been able to create a google map with links to my photographs.
I've been able to overcome the 150 placemarks limitation, and I'm able to embed this map in my biography. Not the ideal place for it, but better than the Smugmaps at this point in time.
If I'm able to do all of this simply by exporting Smugmug RSS feeds, why can Smugmug not automate this? Also, is there another way for me to embed my custom-made map, other than in my biography? Would really like to be able to separate the two!

Below is the link to the google map I've created by exporting RSS feeds. The one I've linked to my home page is even better, in that it uses New Zealand topographic maps overlaid onto Google Maps.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=https...572266&t=p&z=7

Originally Posted by Andy Well, you don't have all the details, do you

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Baldy:

thanks for getting back to me on this.

I always assumed money had something to do with it, and I dont blame SM one bit for not wanting to pay that sort of cash for the map this feature.

My problem with the mapping feature you are using now is that the resolution is totally useless. Its fine Im sure if you live, or at least taken the photos in the US where you might get awesome resolution (due to the mapping company being US and the mapping information easily obtainable to them would be my guess) but up here in the North the mapping you are now using is useless - you cant zoom in enough to the point where you can actually see where the photo was taken.

In my (smallish) city, you cant even tell what neighbourhood a photo was taken let alone which street so for me its totally useless. Best you can do is see that yes, it was taken in the city *somewhere*. I havent checked since i replied to this thread last but I have to assume nothing has changed as far as the resolution is concerned but will check again after i send this.

As much as Torontonians think that they are in the center of the universe - not all Canadians live there and although the last time i checked you could zoom in pretty darn good in that city - most other places its useless.

Im *no* good at coding and even though it might be simple for one to set up their own mapping feature using Google maps, i have no idea how to do so and hate to try setting it up due to fear of totally screwing things up.

I purchased a Canon GPS unit to tag my photos - the unit isnt cheap - it costs much more up here than down in the US but if you cant zoom into a map, the gps unit is almost useless.

Thanks though for getting back to me and explaining Googles stance on the subject (even though I kinda figured that was the case).

Maybe someone could create a walk through to allow us to add the feature without paying the fees they expect SM to use? That would be awesome. I just dont have a clue on how to do that stuff.

Derek J Kennedy

EDIT: yeah the areal view is utterly useless as far as im concerned. the map view not so bad but its the areal view that im missing when compared to the google maps. And I agree with changing the icon :P