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What happened to the map button?

rustybladesrustyblades Registered Users Posts: 120 Major grins
edited March 20, 2014 in Bug Reporting
Bmugmug seems to have changed the appearance of the Smugmug gallery in the last couple of hours. The number of pages in a gallery now shows up. You can edit the description by clicking the description. But the map this button is gone. Anybody know how to restore it? I've changed the location of the buttons on my site so the problem may be with me, although it was working fine since I migrated in July.

Paul
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    AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,012 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2014
    It's now under the "Photo Info" button.
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    rustybladesrustyblades Registered Users Posts: 120 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2014
    Allen wrote: »
    It's now under the "Photo Info" button.

    Thanks Allen. I found it. So we took something that was working really well and made it really clumsy.

    Paul
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    rustybladesrustyblades Registered Users Posts: 120 Major grins
    edited March 15, 2014
    Allen wrote: »
    It's now under the "Photo Info" button.


    To help others the change is described here http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=245841

    Paul
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    ande8150ande8150 Registered Users Posts: 74 Big grins
    edited March 15, 2014
    rustyblades wrote: »
    Thanks Allen. I found it. So we took something that was working really well and made it really clumsy.

    Paul

    Agreed. I much prefer the dedicated map button. I think the average viewer could care less about the exif data so won't be in the photo info section, but would click on a map button if they saw it.

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    WinsomeWorksWinsomeWorks Registered Users Posts: 1,935 Major grins
    edited March 19, 2014
    ande8150 wrote: »
    Agreed. I much prefer the dedicated map button. I think the average viewer could care less about the exif data so won't be in the photo info section, but would click on a map button if they saw it.

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    Ugh. Yes, that whole new map thing is a disaster. Why is it so hard for them to figure out how any normal viewer would use the map stuff. In the new version, always this whole thing with having viewers needing to poke around & in every photo to find it. I just continue to wonder whether these designers simply never look at other photo sites or what.
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    pilotdavepilotdave Registered Users Posts: 785 Major grins
    edited March 19, 2014
    WinsomeWorks wrote: »
    Ugh. Yes, that whole new map thing is a disaster. Why is it so hard for them to figure out how any normal viewer would use the map stuff. In the new version, always this whole thing with having viewers needing to poke around & in every photo to find it. I just continue to wonder whether these designers simply never look at other photo sites or what.

    I wonder who the beta testers are that don't realize the problems with the changes they make. I agree this is a bad change... and I don't understand why they won't implement something similar to the old "map this" button, showing all geotagged images in the gallery on a map. It just makes more sense... and has been requested many times, unlike moving the map data to the info button which was probably never requested by anyone.

    Dave
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    AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,012 Major grins
    edited March 19, 2014
    pilotdave wrote: »
    I wonder who the beta testers are that don't realize the problems with the changes they make. I agree this is a bad change... and I don't understand why they won't implement something similar to the old "map this" button, showing all geotagged images in the gallery on a map. It just makes more sense... and has been requested many times, unlike moving the map data to the info button which was probably never requested by anyone.

    Dave
    I added one here in description.
    http://www.photosbyat.com/Birds/Missouri-Bird-Photos-A-G/i-TN7c4SW
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    rustybladesrustyblades Registered Users Posts: 120 Major grins
    edited March 19, 2014
    WinsomeWorks wrote: »
    Ugh. Yes, that whole new map thing is a disaster. Why is it so hard for them to figure out how any normal viewer would use the map stuff. In the new version, always this whole thing with having viewers needing to poke around & in every photo to find it. I just continue to wonder whether these designers simply never look at other photo sites or what.

    I've started to add a ....Map this Gallery note in the description of the galleries that I want displayed on a map. Example here http://paultavares.smugmug.com/Wildlife/Birds/G/

    It's a bit of a pain but will need do do for now.
    Paul
    http://paultavares.smugmug.com/
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    ande8150ande8150 Registered Users Posts: 74 Big grins
    edited March 19, 2014
    Allen wrote: »
    I added one here in description.
    http://www.photosbyat.com/Birds/Missouri-Bird-Photos-A-G/i-TN7c4SW


    Did you hard code the map link to your description, or is there some kind of dynamic code that links to the map for the gallery currently being viewed?
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    AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,012 Major grins
    edited March 19, 2014
    ande8150 wrote: »
    Did you hard code the map link to your description, or is there some kind of dynamic code that links to the map for the gallery currently being viewed?
    I added it as a link in my description, actually in a html widget, didn't use the gallery description.

    http://maps.smugmug.com/?feedType=geoAlbum&Data=3272272_cDCQWw
    I found the Data in the feeds links of the page source about 30 lines down.

    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Allen Smith > Missouri Bird Photos A-G Gallery RSS Feed" href="/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=3272272_cDCQWw&format=rss200" />
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Allen Smith > Missouri Bird Photos A-G Gallery Atom Feed" href="/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=3272272_cDCQWw&format=atom10" />

    That is the map legacy used which should be around until all legacy sites go away.
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    ande8150ande8150 Registered Users Posts: 74 Big grins
    edited March 20, 2014
    Thanks. Was hoping there was a fancy way to code it to reference the album number on the current page so the html would be the same for all albums, but will look at this as an alternative.

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