Recent Photos & Map This not working until Caption is edited

aaronpriest

Recent Photos and Map This features are either not working or incredibly slow this morning when uploading new photos to new galleries. Nothing has changed on my end as far as workflow goes. Is the site slow indexing this morning or something?

aaronpriest

I should mention, this is the gallery where Map This was working for one photo. I deleted the gallery and created a new one, now it is not working for any photos yet. http://galleries.aaronpriestphoto.com/Landscapes/2010-10-17/

Finally, the one photo that Map This was working on shows up under Recent Photos, and now is deleted of course. None of the other photos have appeared yet. Thumbnail generation is working as quick as it usually does and site navigation is speedy. Here's the Recent Photos: http://galleries.aaronpriestphoto.com/galleries

aaronpriest

OK... this is really odd... as soon as I edit a caption, the Map This and Recent Photos both work for that image, immediately. Seems I remember this issue back when I used RoboGEO to geotag my photos. The solution was to switch to GeoSetter which has worked perfectly fine until this morning. Any bright ideas?

jlselby

That is stated in the help pages for Google Maps:

"Gotcha: You must enter text into the photo caption field for the pin to appear on the map."

http://www.smugmug.com/help/maps

I agree that most people would not expect the caption field to be a requirement for this. I assume smugmug needs something to put in a description field for google maps, but I don't know if that 's the actual reason. If there is a requirement imposed by google, it seems to me that defaulting to the uploaded filename would work in cases where the caption is blank.

aaronpriest

Well, I had the file name already in the caption for each photo. As soon as I edit the caption and add a space or enter for a new line for each photo on Smugmug and save it, then it works. And it has been working fine in the past until this week. I recall that GeoSetter updated ExifTool recently, but I'm not sure if that was exactly the same time frame or not.

WinsomeWorks

aaronpriest wrote: »

Recent Photos and Map This features are either not working or incredibly slow this morning when uploading new photos to new galleries. Nothing has changed on my end as far as workflow goes. Is the site slow indexing this morning or something?

Recent Photos hasn't worked correctly for awhile. It is not showing recent uploads. Also, it is showing photos that have recently been copied and moved, which should not happen. I reported it and it's supposedly been bugged to fix.