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Map Checked key
Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Jan 29, 2014 6:15am
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Hi -

After checking three of the boxes on a search, I hit the 'map checked' button, and instead a Clues! Clues! Clues! page came up. Am I neglecting a step? Thanks -
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Reply to: #828212 by paper trail
Jan 29, 2014 6:24am
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When I click the "map checked" button, it either selects or deselects all of the boxes listed. To get a map, click below that on the Map Results button. I'm not real sure what the purpose of having 2 buttons is, especially since one doesn't seem to work right.
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Reply to: #828212 by paper trail
Jan 29, 2014 6:28am
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Am I neglecting a step?

I just checked three boxes on a search and when I clicked "Map Checked" a map showed up with the three checked boxes locations marked. If I click on Map Results, I get all boxes in the search.
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Reply to: #828218 by Dizzy
Jan 29, 2014 6:31am
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I'm not real sure what the purpose of having 2 buttons is, especially since one doesn't seem to work right.

Green Tortuga just added the "Map Checked" button by popular request. That button only shows the boxes that you specifically check on the map. The "Map Results" link puts ALL of the search results (up to the 100 on the currently page) on the map.

I haven't had any problems with the new button. Maybe if you are, you can post some details about the search/browser/etc. so that GT is made aware of an issue.
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Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #828225 by Aiphid
Jan 29, 2014 6:35am
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Ah ha!

It looks like that button is a copy-cat. If you check boxes and then hit it, it does what it's supposed to do. If you press another button first, the "Map Checked" button copies the last button that you hit.

Definitely a bug in the new button.
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Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #828225 by Aiphid
Jan 29, 2014 6:42am
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I haven't had any problems with the new button. Maybe if you are, you can post some details about the search/browser/etc. so that GT is made aware of an issue.

Browser: Chrome v32.0.1700.102 m

Here's what happens. If I go into my search and click just one box and click Map Checked, I get a super-zoomed-out map of the world with a pin. If I go into my search and click Check All Boxes and then Map Checked, it just alternates between checking and unchecking all boxes. And then, if I uncheck all boxes and just check one box, it will still alternate between checking and unchecking all boxes. So to get the Map Checked button to work again, I have to back out of my search entirely and run a new search. So it seems it's just something wonky if you click Check All before you click Map.

On a side note, it's really annoying that the Map Checked button takes me to a super-zoomed-out map of the world even when I only have one box selected. You'd think it would choose a closer zoom setting for a default.
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Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #828229 by Dizzy
Jan 29, 2014 7:13am
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That's weird: my "Map Checked" is working fine.
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Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #828226 by Aiphid
Jan 29, 2014 12:47pm
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I just tried it on one of my searches. When I checked all boxes and clicked "Map Checked" it took all the checks out of all the boxes, no map. So than I just checked just one box and clicked "Map Checked" again and it checked all my boxes, again no map. Several variations of this I never got a map, it just checked or unchecked boxes.
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Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #828226 by Aiphid
Jan 29, 2014 6:09pm
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Ah ha, indeed.
That's it - thank you. I hit it first and it worked as planned...
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Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #828229 by Dizzy
Jan 30, 2014 12:53pm
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So it seems it's just something wonky if you click Check All before you click Map.

I'm not even sure why you would want to do that--there's already a button that maps all of the boxes in the results already without checking any of the boxes. But admittedly, it does sound like a bug that I'll have to look into... in a few days. I'm on vacation in Mexico right now, and it's not a super important bug that can't wait a few days. ;o)

On a side note, it's really annoying that the Map Checked button takes me to a super-zoomed-out map of the world even when I only have one box selected. You'd think it would choose a closer zoom setting for a default.

That's what Google does--I don't really set any zoom levels at all. I noticed that too and it only seems to happen when there's a single box selected. If you have two or more boxes selected, it zooms in so all of the selected boxes fit into the view and no more. Why? I don't know.... *shrug*

-- Ryan
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Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #828491 by Green Tortuga
Jan 30, 2014 4:36pm
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So it seems it's just something wonky if you click Check All before you click Map.

I'm not even sure why you would want to do that--

Because maybe you want to check 25 of the 30 boxes in a search and it's easier to click Check All then uncheck 5 instead of having to check 25.

I'm on vacation in Mexico right now,

Have fun! :)
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Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #828212 by paper trail
Feb 1, 2014 12:41am
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Alrighty then, I think the "map checked" button works correctly now--even if you use the "check all" button. =)

-- Ryan
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Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #828738 by Green Tortuga
Feb 1, 2014 3:48am
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Thank you!
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Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #828738 by Green Tortuga
Feb 1, 2014 7:49am
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Works for me! Thanks!
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Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #828491 by Green Tortuga
Feb 5, 2014 2:47pm
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On a side note, it's really annoying that the Map Checked button takes me to a super-zoomed-out map of the world even when I only have one box selected. You'd think it would choose a closer zoom setting for a default.

That's what Google does--I don't really set any zoom levels at all. I noticed that too and it only seems to happen when there's a single box selected. If you have two or more boxes selected, it zooms in so all of the selected boxes fit into the view and no more. Why? I don't know.... *shrug*

Maybe it fits the zoom to the distance between the 2 farthest-apart boxes? And if there's only one box, it can't find a second box for the end point, so it looks all the way around the world and gets back to the first box & sets that as the end point. And so the distance between is the whole way around the world....