What happened with the mapping / geography?

piolet_rampe

I have had to manually reset the geography for many of my galleries due to some recent change in Smug Mug. Galleries / images that once appeared on the world map, no longer were appearing. Also, the manual way to assign geographic x/y values has gotten worse. The address lookup is now very awkward, particularly the primitive mapping application that is now being used. It would be great to just use google maps for this.

bobbyhero

Please contact the Heroes directly if you're experiencing any strange behavior with your EXIF data being properly used (i.e. via maps, etc):
http://help.smugmug.com

piolet_rampe

Part of problem may be change from Google to Mapquest

bobbyhero wrote: »

Please contact the Heroes directly if you're experiencing any strange behavior with your EXIF data being properly used (i.e. via maps, etc):
http://help.smugmug.com

Thanks bobbyhero. Upon closer examination, I notice that the map service changed from Google, to Mapquest. There used to be a feature to launch the image or gallery in Google Earth. This features is either gone, or requires some new steps to enable. This must be something done to cut costs since when was the last time anyone ever intentionally used Mapquest? 2001?

I don't always have geography embedded in the EXIF data. I often used SmugMug using the older Google-based service by manually assigning the geography. I would type in a location as close as I could get it, and then manually adjust the location based on the satellite imagery or more detailed street address. This different MapQuest based service just doesn't have the mapping background to be useful anymore. I will need to use Google Earth separately to identify an x/y coordinate, and then migrate back to the SmugMug site to enter this information in.

Sorry to be snivelly and nitpicky here, but with all the attention being paid to working with Facebook as a major advancement, it is unfortunate that this has been done at the expense of geography. Up until now, all the changes I have noticed for this site have been for the better, not for the worse. Hopefully SM will reconsider this downgrade.

Thanks for listening and for all you do.

pilotdave

piolet_rampe wrote: »

I have had to manually reset the geography for many of my galleries due to some recent change in Smug Mug. Galleries / images that once appeared on the world map, no longer were appearing. Also, the manual way to assign geographic x/y values has gotten worse. The address lookup is now very awkward, particularly the primitive mapping application that is now being used. It would be great to just use google maps for this.

Some insight from Baldy (from the bug reporting forum):

I'm so sorry this has happened with maps. We re-opened the issue with Google this week thinking surely we can work this out, but they are requiring us to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to turn their maps back on.

http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=1862159&postcount=26

Dave

piolet_rampe

pilotdave wrote: »

Some insight from Baldy (from the bug reporting forum):



http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=1862159&postcount=26

Dave

Thanks for the pointer. I see this problem goes way back to last Fall. To be honest, I haven't paid much attention to my site since then anyway so that's why I notice it now.

It stinks that Google is being evil about linking their maps. The replacement is so bad though that I would prefer that SM just removed the feature altogether.

WinsomeWorks

Download My Own Full-size watermarked Images?
*** Sorry, posted in the wrong place-- someone's welcome to move this ***

I'm quite sure I've asked this in the past, & probably gotten answers. But too time-constrained at the moment to sift through a bunch of searches. I think I've only been able to download smaller versions of my watermarked images (retaining the watermarks!) But right now I'd like to download full-sized ones. Is this possible? I do have one of those apps, & haven't used it enough to even remember which one.. maybe SmugLoader or something like that. But I'd like to know if it's possible without that, too.

rainforest1155

WinsomeWorks wrote: »

*** Sorry, posted in the wrong place-- someone's welcome to move this ***

I'm quite sure I've asked this in the past, & probably gotten answers. But too time-constrained at the moment to sift through a bunch of searches. I think I've only been able to download smaller versions of my watermarked images (retaining the watermarks!) But right now I'd like to download full-sized ones. Is this possible? I do have one of those apps, & haven't used it enough to even remember which one.. maybe SmugLoader or something like that. But I'd like to know if it's possible without that, too.

We do not watermark your originals and if you wish to download watermarked versions of your photos, you can only choose from the display sizes we offer (up to X3Large).

Bulk downloads of display sizes would need to be done with a third party tool. Check out the downloaders section here for possible tools that allow you to do that. If I recall correctly, WinDownload and Star Explorer both have an option to download display sizes.