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We released a potential fix for this late last week. If folks that were experiencing this could try again and let us know if anything has improved, that would be much appreciated.

I can’t reproduce with https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=97394&subview=map&taxon_id=427629 [image] I suspect it’s the issue pisum outlined here . Does refreshing fix it? Is this the only taxon you’ve noticed it in?

I can’t reproduce now and don’t have the window to do a refresh, but it happens for various taxa.

This is interesting. Yesterday, I reported a different aspect of the issue, that the map wasn’t zoomed / centered: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observations-map-doesnt-reliably-zoom-to-place-so-markers-can-be-seen/38393 Then @pisum pointed me at this issue which is probably the same one. So I tr…

FYI, as Tony requested on the other thread I started, I have now filed a github issue for this that covers both the empty explore map and the incomplete zoom/pan as they very likely stem from the same root cause.

OK, so we released a fix for this issue just now, but since quite a few parts of the Explore were touched, it may have introduced some new bugs. We tested it on our staging server, but can’t account for all possible uses. So let us know if anything looks weird in Explore, and if the original bug her…

i don’t think i see an improvement. i still see all the different cases from before i just reload the same page several times. worse, if i throttle my connection (to slow it down), it seems like the “map not showing observations” is especially noticeable, perhaps more noticeable than it used to be. …

I’m still getting this too I just searched for genus Clematis and I get a totally blank map [image] I pressed refresh 5 times at different intervals (wait 5 seconds, wait 30 seconds etc), still no points appear on the map

Unfortunately, as others have reported already, the issue does not appear to be fixed. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=97394&subview=map&taxon_id=427629 exhibits the same behaviour as reported in the issue I filed: initially it is blank and not zoomed/centered, and then refreshing …

Thanks, I can replicate that. We’ll take another look.

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benarmstrong January 13, 2023, 9:32am 5

ok, here it is. different refreshes, map shifted by different amounts …

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