Hi Anu,

First, congratulations for your work, making it easy to provide geographic information to media is quite important. I planned to send some feedback earlier but didn't found the time, hope it is still helpful:

Coordinates vs map as main input for location. Currently coordinate fields and the map are provided side-by-side. It would be good to think how to simplify this since I guess that both are not intended to be used with the same frequency. Several options came to my mind: (a) Remove coordinate fields, and add a coordinates action or icon inside the map search bar. In that way users can click the coordinates icon to turn the search bar into the coordinate fields, (b) in addition to the previous one allow flexible input so that the same bar can be used both ways, (c) present coordinates as part of the map with output as a main purpose but suggesting that they can be also edited (similar to what Max proposed).
Anticipating the needs of the user. The searching process can be benefited by some strategies to save the user from typing. For example, as soon as the user indicates their intent of setting a location, the map could load some area nearby the user location (or maybe keep the previous are the user looked for). In addition, updating the map as the user types with autocompletion could also help in that regard.
Initial status. Initially, for me, the map was a grey box. It would be preferred it being the world map (to give context) or a usual/current location to save time in some cases.
Continuity between map types. The change between the two kinds of maps is not fluent. According to what Gergo said, the dynamic map can be used if only one image is being uploaded (or make the switch when the user clicks n the search box). For the cases where such transition cannot be avoided, some visual cue will be needed to indicate that you are expected to click: the cursor could be a hand, as you hover, the location indicator can follow the cursor to communicate that you can place it in a more detailed position, and the label that indicates this could be more prominent and refer to "pick a specific location" instead that referring to technical terms such as "leaflet map".

Making it possible to make the location input compact (e.g., integrating coordinates with the map) is something really useful. Just to share some initial design explorations about commons, I was thinking on making extra information such as location more accessible form the description page (see very early mockup). in the same way I illustrated for categories (see another mockup), clicking on the globe can show your map-driven input.

Hope these ideas are helpful.

Pau

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Max <max@koehler-kn.de> wrote:

Hey there,
Here's some things I'd do differently.

1. Make the map full-width and put the "Latitude and Longitude" on top of it. That would make it way easier to figure out where you are on the map and find the place you're looking for.

2. Why can't I drag the map? Is that just not supported by OSM, or did you for whatever reason disable that feature? Either way, seems super-counter-intuitive for me.

3. Just show the map on pageload, not just when I enter an adress. There's no reason to put in an extra step like this in the process. Let's make it as streamlined as possible.

Other than that, great work.
Best, max.

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Pau Giner

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