Because when you’re looking at an observation that’s ID’d very coarsely - like “plants” - it takes a long time to load the map because of all the observations on it. When the ID is that coarse, a map for every plant isn’t very useful anyway - and even in other cases, I don’t use the info on other ob…

I’d be in favor of this for coarse IDs now that inat has so much data. Not at the species or genus level though or at least it should default on imho

Thoughts on merging these two requests and expanding this one to include the Identify page? They seem pretty similar. Like @jdmore said, I think it’s the observation pinpoints on the map, not the map itself, that makes loading slow. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/option-for-maps-off-browsing/2749 …

[image] bouteloua: Thoughts on merging these two requests and expanding this one to include the Identify page? They seem pretty similar. I agree, if @clockwood and @er1kksen are amenable.

Sounds find to me. From the title of the thread I thought it was about something totally different. I think these do compliment each other and a single solution could probably cover both.

Hey, I just saw this, but yeah, that’s fine with me as well

[image] clockwood: It would be nice to have a setting for “ask before loading other observations on maps on observation pages” which, when turned on, would replace the typical map with one that ONLY shows the observation whose page you’re looking at, with a little button that says “Show other {I…

Talking with our dev team this is something we’re interested in trying out, in some as yet undetermined form. Should help speed things up.

Are you still having slow loading issues since when the maps were redesigned with the orange squares?

Sorry I just saw this. It’s a little bit slow but acceptably so - much, much better than it was

Option to hide other observations on maps (Observation Detail page, Identify)

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jdmore April 18, 2019, 8:21pm 2

Totally agree here, some observation pages are super slow to finish loading, and the hold-up does appear to be the map display.

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