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Is the VIEW MAP function broken, or is it just me? It seems to me that in the past if you clicked on the view map link under a photo it would immediately take you to an area and show you all the photos near the one just viewed. But now (and for some time at least) the view map link simply opens a page of the entire world and makes you guess where the photo lives.

Is anyone else seeing this? Is anyone at PBase aware of it and working on it? I don't see any other notes here in the Forums about it.

Dave,

Check out this discussion:

http://forum.pbase.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=47468&sid=637cd3a8646acffe6d007c2e56db5dd1

Geotagging was first reported broken November 22, 2013. I have written to customer support four times and received an answer once, which basically asked me what the problem was.

Regards, Walter

Dave,
I had not seen the same problem while I was logged into Pbase.com, but a regular viewer told me that they only saw the world map and not the actual location of the image.
So I opened a inprivate browsing session and was able to observe the same issue. The view map takes a viewer to the world map and not the location of the image if that person is not logged into Pbase.com.

RichO

I really never use that function if available but just went to one of heinsite's photos http://www.pbase.com/heinsite/image/126899662 and clicked its map location. All I got was the full world map, no specific location. And I am logged in to Pbase.

Could this utility be dependant on the browser the viewer is using?

I have tried it with Chrome on my tablet and that does not work if I am not logged in. I think it only works on your own images when you are logged in, perhaps because you had been on the map at the location level to save the location.
Update: I just tried it logged in with Chrome on my tablet and it worked, but logged out it does not work - just gives me the world map.

So this has never worked?

Great. I've spent dozens of hours tagging images on maps... and I'm the only one that can see them?

The link does say "view map"... not "View where your photos are".

And when not logged in, it does show a map... so I guess it DOES work!

dbh wrote:So this has never worked?

Great. I've spent dozens of hours tagging images on maps... and I'm the only one that can see them?

The link does say "view map"... not "View where your photos are".

And when not logged in, it does show a map... so I guess it DOES work!

It has been years since I tested it, but I am pretty sure it worked at one time as expected - visitor clicks image and map displays zoomed in location with pushpin. In the past the other issues have been security related. Visitors would get a login dialog or they did not see anything on the map.

You can add a View Map link yourself using Google Maps. Just grab Google's URL for the location. You need to click to bring up the location dialog, click the pushpin in the dialog and then use the "Share and Embed" option from the popup menu. When a visitor clicks on this link it should bring up Google Maps zoomed into the location with the pushpin showing. See example below this image: http://www.pbase.com/image/155197580 . Click the "Google View Map Link" and it should work even if you use an incognito or inprivate browsing session (so you are not logged into Pbase.com).

It is possible that the Google API has changed resulting the code for Pbase's implementation to fail. I have had that happen in projects I have developed for both Google Maps and Bing Maps.

dbh wrote:So this has never worked?

Great. I've spent dozens of hours tagging images on maps... and I'm the only one that can see them?

The link does say "view map"... not "View where your photos are".

And when not logged in, it does show a map... so I guess it DOES work!

I can see a map of Okinawa Island showing location of all your photos from that gallery. You are not the only one that see them on a map.

peterkwok wrote:

dbh wrote:So this has never worked?

Great. I've spent dozens of hours tagging images on maps... and I'm the only one that can see them?

The link does say "view map"... not "View where your photos are".

And when not logged in, it does show a map... so I guess it DOES work!

I can see a map of Okinawa Island showing location of all your photos from that gallery. You are not the only one that see them on a map.

I went to the Okinawa gallery and it takes me to a world map when I click "view map".

To quote my previous post: "Geotagging was first reported broken November 22, 2013. I have written to customer support four times and received an answer once, which basically asked me what the problem was."

richo wrote:

dbh wrote:So this has never worked?

Great. I've spent dozens of hours tagging images on maps... and I'm the only one that can see them?

The link does say "view map"... not "View where your photos are".

And when not logged in, it does show a map... so I guess it DOES work!

It has been years since I tested it, but I am pretty sure it worked at one time as expected - visitor clicks image and map displays zoomed in location with pushpin. In the past the other issues have been security related. Visitors would get a login dialog or they did not see anything on the map.

You can add a View Map link yourself using Google Maps. Just grab Google's URL for the location. You need to click to bring up the location dialog, click the pushpin in the dialog and then use the "Share and Embed" option from the popup menu. When a visitor clicks on this link it should bring up Google Maps zoomed into the location with the pushpin showing. See example below this image: http://www.pbase.com/image/155197580 . Click the "Google View Map Link" and it should work even if you use an incognito or inprivate browsing session (so you are not logged into Pbase.com).

It is possible that the Google API has changed resulting the code for Pbase's implementation to fail. I have had that happen in projects I have developed for both Google Maps and Bing Maps.

Just tried your example. It opens a map viewing half the world - not zoomed in.

EDIT: Nevermind, I clicked on the view map link the first time. Your Google View Map Link works. Thanks for the tip!

peterkwok wrote:

dbh wrote:So this has never worked?

Great. I've spent dozens of hours tagging images on maps... and I'm the only one that can see them?

The link does say "view map"... not "View where your photos are".

And when not logged in, it does show a map... so I guess it DOES work!

I can see a map of Okinawa Island showing location of all your photos from that gallery. You are not the only one that see them on a map.

Do you see the map zoomed in near the image location? That's how I save maps.

How about when you're not logged into PBase?

dbh wrote:

peterkwok wrote:

dbh wrote:So this has never worked?

Great. I've spent dozens of hours tagging images on maps... and I'm the only one that can see them?

The link does say "view map"... not "View where your photos are".

And when not logged in, it does show a map... so I guess it DOES work!

I can see a map of Okinawa Island showing location of all your photos from that gallery. You are not the only one that see them on a map.

Do you see the map zoomed in near the image location? That's how I save maps.

How about when you're not logged into PBase?

I click the "map" link on the gallery. It shows the locations of all photos in that gallery, that means the entire island with multiple red pins.
No, I have not try to do so while logged out.