I believe this only applies to a small group of people but I would like to put it out there. When viewing observations in iNaturalist with the map, features on the map do not properly scale when using an ultra-wide monitor (This may also affect widescreens but I am not sure), causing them to hover i…

Don’t forget to vote for your own request

are you talking only about changes in the map view? if so, i think there have been a lot of suggestions for Explore page updates, including more dynamic scaling (i would assume mostly for mobile, but which could apply to large or wide monitors, too). see: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ideas-for-a-…

For what it’s worth, I think it’s the horizontal resolution of the screen that’s the issue, not the aspect ratio of your screen—meaning, a square screen with the same horizontal resolution in pixels would have just as much dead space at right and left, along with of course a lot more space above and…

(“Small” meaning “small for a desktop”. It also doesn’t work well on really small—i.e., phone—screens.)

This might be a good time to bring up the same weird scaling at 1440p with 100% scaling in windows [image] A similar problem with UI elements blocking the map and that huge amount of whitespace at the bottom You’d think that the bottom of the map would be a set distance from the bottom info bar …

It becomes even worst if you switch the interface language to broader one, like Russian. [image] Only highlighted part of the map can interact with the user (dragging, opening the marker or close the obs. card.

No, I’ve made feature requests on behalf of others that I myself didn’t support. But you could discuss it further at #forum-feedback or at the Discourse forum: https://meta.discourse.org/tag/topic-voting

[image] user82793: The fact that one has made a feature request is de facto evidence that one supports their feature request. Evidence, not proof. :-) Exceptions exist but are presumably rare.

We discussed this and won’t be adding support for the current Explore. When the Explore page is rewritten, we’ll take a look at various screen resolution and see what we can support.

Platform: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS with a 3840 × 2160 display App version number, if a mobile app issue: desktop/website Browser, if a website issue: (doesn’t seem important) Firefox 140.0.2, Chrome 137.0.7151.119 (Official Build) (64-bit) URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: …

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Topic		Replies	Views
Observations page blank space General web	6	155	May 1, 2025
Web Interface Map Suggestion General	6	127	February 10, 2026
The world map doesn't expand vertically Bug Reports	7	172	August 26, 2024
Allow the "Places" map to be resized, or at least make it a little taller... Feature Requests	2	422	January 23, 2026
Design of map view page in browsers is not fully responsive Bug Reports	2	621	March 17, 2020

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