The default map view is pretty useless in Africa, and I have to change every map to satellite view. This only sticks on the map tab of the Explore page, and if one has chosen the satellite view on a traditional project. Everywhere else the map defaults to map view even on a page refresh.
Here is an example of what I see when I’m trying to find a point on map view:
I’m all out of votes, but I’ll second this. I think you get an automatic vote if it’s your suggestion!
I’d also like the map to always be zoomed to show just the obs. Often I find I’m getting the whole world view and have to scroll right in to the obs that are often all in a small corner of Southern Africa.
As a side note: if I have put the wrong locality on a bunch of photos (which is usually a result of the pinned locations search bouncing around (which is another thing I need to write a post about)), and want to batch edit them to the correct spot, my pinned locations are not available in the Batch Edit function, so I have to go searching on the map again and find the spot and rename it properly because the goog names are random and vague.
I am with the 50% on your poll who add location manually. We hike somewhere different each week, and I try to mark each plant I photograph ‘where I saw it’ for which satellite view helps.
I should probably explain how this works, or is supposed to work, as it’s a bit buggy at the moment. We’re working on fixing those issues.
Basically, if you are on a page with a map - Explore, Upload, Observation detail, Identify, Taxon, etc - and choose Map or Satellite view on that page, that choice is now “sticky” throughout the rest of the site. So if I’m using the uploader and switch to satellite view, I should see all maps in satellite view on the rest of the site until I choose map view on another map. Then all maps will be shown in map view until I change it again.
OK, I think there are still a few things we need to clean up, but I’m going to close this now. If it’s not working as expected, please file a bug report.
