On maps, the circles that become upside-down tear-drop shapes when fully zoomed in only have a selectable area that comprises about the lower-right 1/4 of the circle and sometimes that selection area disappears entirely until you zoom in or out. This can make it difficult to click on the point. The …

[image] blue_lotus: You can see some parts of the thumbnail are selectable, and others aren’t. that’s interesting. it looks like the observer and date fields in the pop-up are maybe extending over the photo and preventing it from being selected. the same problem seems to exist in the Identify…

[image] pisum: can you provide a specific example of this? It seems to be most, if not all of them, if I’m not mistaken. Their selection area is just very small in general, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the pixels you can hit are just a bit off center.

hmmm… i don’t see a particular problem with the pins in either the taxon or Explore pages.

I just tried and it’s definitely doing it. If I zoom all the way into the first level of upside-down teardrop shaped points, I can easily have the point selectable with my cursor entirely to the right of the point by about 2 mm. But if I try to go left of about mid-way through the tear-drop shape, i…

Me too. I know the teardrops are clickable, but I have to zoom in and out until I can trigger that click response.

i did a visualization of the clickable are vs the new grid, and this is what i see in terms of misalignment: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/open-test-of-map-tile-improvements/7833/89 . i’m hopeful that they can address it now that the grid has officially replaced the circles. (see https://forum.inat…

We are still battling to ‘click to open’ https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/location-pins-on-maps/45968/11

The Selection Areas for a lot of Things are too Small, or Misaligned

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blue_lotus January 5, 2020, 3:37pm 6

Hmm, I just tested the grid design also. It performs exactly the same as the circle-based maps.

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The Selection Areas for a lot of Things are too Small, or Misaligned

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