The “View map” function is broken again (maybe it was broken earlier when I thought it was fixed). I use Firefox and Windows XP Home Edition all the time and I let Firefox remember my password. I also post photos to Flickr and Panoramio and have no map problems there. I regularly use the free version of CCleaner on my hard drive. For this report I tested the “View map” link with one of my images:
http://www.pbase.com/listorama/image/153965409 and used Firefox and Internet Explorer. Clearing Firefox’s cache has made no difference. The image is mapped to this location:
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=41.43 ... 4&z=15&m=b .
Using PBase with Firefox 26.0 (I let my browser remember my password):
A. When logged in to PBase, I get the normal, correct view of a red photo icon at the top of a mountain summit in northwestern Utah. The icon remains intact when I zoom in and it displays the photo correctly. However, after doing that, if I zoom out, all icons in that area disappear and only re-appear if I refresh the screen.
B. When logged out of PBase, I get a world map with two photo icons, one red and one light green. The red one is located correctly at Wiesbaden Army Air Field in Erbenheim, Germany (just outside of Wiesbaden). The icon remains intact when I zoom in to see in detail where the photo was taken and it displays an image properly. After doing that and zooming out, the icon remains intact and functioning. The other icon is light green, appears incorrectly in southwestern Idaho, and is labeled “100+” When I zoom in, the icon disappears.
Using PBase with Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702 (I do not let the browser remember my password):
C. When logged in to PBase, I get a world map with no photo icons.
D. When logged out of PBase, I get a world map with no photo icons.
When I use Firefox, am logged in to PBase, and click on the “View map” link of someone else’s photo, I get a world map similar to example B above, except the icons are in England (where he lives and his photos were taken) and in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa (a place he has never been).
What a mess.