The Map This! Feature is also diminished

dodger501

Instead of a convenient 'Map This!' button above your pictures in each gallery, you now have to create a 'Page' and move a map content block into it. A 200 image limit.
It supposedly schleps all your images with GPS exif info and puts them on a map.
The map is only partial page whereas before it was full page. I have hundreds of images with GPS exif info but only a few show up:

http://www.dodgerdigital.com/Travel

RonD200

Yeah I would like to see "Map This" is each gallery too! BTW you can make the map large by changing the page layout from Fixed to Stretchy... Here's my map page... http://ronskinner.smugmug.com/Map-Page

AlexWild

Several of us have been pestering Smugmug for years to improve the mapping features, and not only has nothing been done, they've gone and made it worse. As the site currently stands, there is little point to having geography metadata.

Smugmug needs to return mapping at the gallery level, and also needs to implement it at the level of the individual photo. Some of us nature photographers organize galleries by taxonomy, and being able to view the location of a photo is especially important. Professional taxonomists visit my site and actually use those data in their research. And now they can't.

How hard can it be to put a single button (say, next to the info button), that links out to a map?

AlexWild

Here's a recent technical paper that shows how photo sharing sites with good mapping systems are far more useful to scientists than what the New SmugMug just did:

http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/4342/photosharing-websites-may-improve-hemiptera-biodiversity-knowledge-and-conservation