Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website. Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Reproduced both on Chrome 108 and Firefox 108. URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=13164&subview=map&taxon_id=716925 Scr…

Can confirm it happens pretty often with boundaries search.

[image] benarmstrong: seems to be very timing-sensitive sounds like: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-refresh-map-to-show-observations/25339/17 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/empty-explore-map/28400

Yes. The first was missed in my search because it’s not in bug reports. The second, I missed because I was looking for issues involving the zoom, not “empty” which wasn’t the symptom I was noticing.

I’ve been having this happen more and more often recently, and not even with a search that’s limited by boundaries.

I played with the Eulophia graminea for North America search (from the “empty explore map” bug report pisum linked above) and refreshed a number of times. Sometimes the map was blanked, and sometimes the map had markers, and was zoomed, but the pan either wasn’t executed, or only partially executed. …

[image] benarmstrong: display is empty and the map is at the default zoom level (whole world) take a look at the first link in my post above. i think that roughly explains this case. [image] benarmstrong: incomplete pan case i haven’t looked at the code, but it looks to me like the ma…

Would you expect it to shift different amounts refreshing the same URL over and over? That’s what I’m observing. If I can reproduce it, I’ll post some screenshots.

@benarmstrong I think you’d be able to write a much more coherent Github issues for this than I could - would you be able to do that?

Sure! Done: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/3636

Observations map doesn't reliably zoom to place so markers can be seen

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pisum January 7, 2023, 1:09pm 3

sounds like:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-refresh-map-to-show-observations/25339/17
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/empty-explore-map/28400

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Observations map doesn't reliably zoom to place so markers can be seen

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