Thoughts on *not* making the taxon page map type sticky?

[bouteloua]

Continuing the discussion from Default map/satellite view in personal preferences:

@tiwane

if you are on a page with a map - Explore, Upload, Observation detail, Identify, Taxon, etc - and choose Map or Satellite view on that page, that choice is now “sticky” throughout the rest of the site. So if I’m using the uploader and switch to satellite view, I should see all maps in satellite view on the rest of the site until I choose map view on another map. Then all maps will be shown in map view until I change it again.

This is a great new feature. I click that “satellite” view button way less these days. :) The one exception is on taxon pages, where having a cleaner geopolitical overview is almost always more helpful to me than satellite view. Thoughts?

I think the taxon page map type choice should:

• Default to “Map” view (rather than “Satellite”/sticky choice)
• Default to my sticky choice
• Something else, I commented below

[kiwifergus]

I almost think it could be sticky for each place there is a map, but that would be maybe a little overkill. Sticky globally is definitely an improvement on how it was though!

[vynbos]

I voted ‘something else’:I think ideally the taxon map should work independently of the user’s current global choice, but should stay sticky with the user’s last choice for the taxon map type.