On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Regarding the static maps on initial load, I found this feature to be unintuitive when I tried it. IMO, it would be better to just show a spinner while the map is loading, rather than requiring an extra click to get to the actual map.
There is a spinner, although only while the static map is loading. We tried to handle the use case when someone uploads dozens of images at the same time; I figured that opening dozens of Leaflet maps at the same time would be taxing on the browser (yeah, I should have tested that assumption first...).
I agree that clicking on the static map to open the dynamic one is unintuitive (it also does not help that they use different tiles at the moment). One thing we were considering (but ran out of time) is a large Leaflet map in some sort of popup/lightbox interface (with an edit button to make it clear how to open it), and the static map would then be just a reminder of what was selected, shown when you are not editing the map.