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this will hopefully make for better URLs rather than automatically generating them. JavaScript could monitor changes to the title field and auto-fill the URL field, swapping "-" for spaces/punctuation and removing "and" and "the", but prompting the user to enter/edit/approve the final URL.

Thanks Jeff.

I just took a quick look and noticed two issues, I put them on Github too.

In Firefox on Mac, maps have images all placed on top of each other vs in Safari, where look as expected, e.g,
http://test.mapknitter.org:3000/map/ewb-symposium-without-borders-davis-ca
also,
http://test.mapknitter.org:3000/map/livermore-ca-near-airport

with helpful information on using TMSs in general and also TMSs from other maps.

needs a rework; good on tablets but maybe smartphones need virtual width set

I am attempting to replace the lat/lng and description of http://mapknitter.org/map/view/2014-06-27-nyc-statenisland-northshore, however i am unable to save the new information.

"Before" screenshot:

"During" screenshot:

"Result" screenshot:

https://github.com/shramov/leaflet-plugins/blob/master/control/Permalink.js

Also, what do you think of just allowing people to drag images onto the map itself, to start uploading them?

Where can you get images to upload?

Read about Grassroots Mapping with Balloons and Kites.

goes to http://wiki.grassrootsmapping.org/

but should go to:

http://publiclab.org/wiki/balloon-mapping

There are currently two places on the home page where users can login.

The login link in the upper right-hand corner sends the user's auth request to the PublicLab OpenId server and then returns the user to the MapKnitter homepage once the user has successfully authenticated.

The login link the upper left-hand corner doesn't transmit the user's auth info to Public Lab, it's just a plain redirect to the PublicLab homepage. In addition, it doesn't bring the user back to where they started once authentication is complete. This is non-intuitive behavior.

The link in the upper right-hand corner is more recent (I did a bunch of work on it over the summer). As far as I can tell, it's superior to the old login link, except for anonymous login functionality (which it doesn't currently support).

We should port anonymous login to the new login form and then remove the old login form.

in the new Leaflet interface currently being beta-previewed at /maps/foo?leaflet=true

@patcyole sez: I also got this when I tried to move to next page, going to page 3:

TypeError in Maps#index
Showing /home/warren/mapknitter2/app/views/maps/index.html.erb where line #62 raised:
wrong argument type nil (expected String)
Extracted source (around line #62):
59: | <%= map.location %>
60: 

61: 

62: <%=raw truncate(markdown_to_html(map.description),:length =>200) %>
63: <% if !map.description %>no description<% end %>
64: 
65: 
Rails.root: /home/warren/mapknitter2
Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace
app/helpers/map_helper.rb:5:in `to_html'
app/helpers/map_helper.rb:5:in `markdown_to_html'
app/views/maps/index.html.erb:62:in `block in _app_views_maps_index_html_erb__2959561373103988946_28118360'
app/views/maps/index.html.erb:41:in `_app_views_maps_index_html_erb__2959561373103988946_28118360'
app/controllers/maps_controller.rb:11:in `index'
Request
Parameters:
{"page"=>"3"}
Show session dump
Show env dump
Response
Headers:
None

I am trying to embed the map-knitter preview with the annotation tool.
I am also looking for a more simple way to embed the web viewer of the map (like the map-knitter preview) to the website, overlaid on GoogleMaps or OSM.
there two problems - when i press the web viewer button here: http://mapknitter.org/map/view/vadi-asbestonim , the page never loads, and when I try the open layers button, the page loads but the map is blank, this happens with other maps as well.
last thing - There is spam and a change of location in some maps - what can I do to change it? http://mapknitter.org/map/view/beit-safafa

show random assortment of 6 or so on index page, link out to /featured for fuller listing

example: http://test.mapknitter.org:3000/map/nature-center-infrag

should collect bounds and run map.fitBounds()

(no github tag for "exports")
white triangle appearing in these map project in the JPG/TIFF, while showing up as black triangles in the tiles. All 3 project are large in geographic extent/size

http://mapknitter.org/map/view/pei-1935

http://mapknitter.org/map/view/devon3

http://mapknitter.org/map/view/1949-midtownairphotos

Currently dropping images to map brings up the modal, should dropping images on the map just hide the upload interface(modal) and display them only in case of error occurred in file upload. Access to the upload interface can be provided with the same upload button showing the list of images.

from older issues, this note:

we should have a "srcnodata" flag in gdal_translate triggered by params[:alpha] from a checkbox

see example: http://mapknitter.org/map/view/barataria-bl2 -- transparent in Map editor but not through export

currently if you've placed an image or two, it's hard to move them to an entirely new place. Deleting them and moving, then re-starting can work, but the "named" map location may remain on the original place. This needs some thorough user interface thinking.

many times i don't get preview for map, in the preview page in MapKnitter

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for interfaces, think minimalist! Can we have the upload begin automatically, and not require a "start" button? Also, perhaps you could use the Bootstrap modal instead of the old one there: http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/javascript.html#modals

Kitty Currier
to stewart
Greetings,

I'm having problems using MapKnitter and am wondering if this is due to browser issues on my end, internet connectivity, or something else. I just created the user name "kapmappers" and started a map that currently has two images.

Using Chrome (v. 36.0.1985.125 m), when I open my map and click on the "edit" button, the tab hangs and eventually is killed by the browser. Using Firefox (v. 31.0) I was able to upload a couple images and manipulate them a bit, though MapKnitter seems to behave oddly (e.g. photos disappear unexpectedly, and I can't find them). This could be user error, but I suspect it's more, as when I tried to access MapKnitter from a different computer using the same two browsers, I couldn't get my map to open on either of them, at all.

Do you have any suggestions? Both computers I tried were connected via decently fast ethernet connections, so I don't think that would have caused my problems.

Thanks,
Kitty

do I just close the window? There should maybe be a "Done" button or a "place these images" button?

see publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage#13

I just tried to export the map Katamon-1946 and it exported half the image. I tried to reduce resolution for a new export, though anyway it wasn't high (~26), but the "adjust" button wasn't responding. well, it was responding but it didn't give me the option to adjust -

this is what I see when i press adjust:

if it's possible to identify matching interest points between two images, on the fly (client side would be AWESOME), then as someone drags an image, as it overlaps a neighboring image, the interface could try to find matches between the two images, and could draw spiderwebby red lines between possible matches, to help the user. It might even be possible to make those matches slightly "magnetic" if you know what I mean?

This is an issue for Amy Soyka:
her base layer isn't displaying. she's using:

CHROME VERSION
35.0.1916.153 m
OS VERSION
Windows NT: 6.1 SP1 (Windows 7)

2.5hrs work lost with old map revision showing :( any possible way to recover last version before the failed export?

As noted in email:
Thanks Jeff. Interesting issues in results from this try:
http://mapknitter.org/map/view/livermore-ca-test-with-pl-mobius-infragram-point-and-shoot-on-parrot-ar-drone-2-0
Exports as jpeg and webviewer seem null or empty.
Edit map initially shows locked set of images as displaced, but seem to line up if pan in the editable map window.
All, may be function of the very low altitude images. Can't zoom in more to place them better. I'll note this in GetHub, but may just be due to this extreme case.

I'm trying to get MapKnitter set up and ran into some issues. I tried to run rake --tasks but kept getting the following error:

rake aborted!
LoadError: no such file to load -- rdoc/task
/home/justin/prog/mapknitter/Rakefile:8
/home/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

I was able to fix it by installing rdoc:

gem install rdoc

rdoc should be listed as a dependency in the README file. I'll add it at some point in the next few days and submit a pull request. I'm also looking in to using Bundler to make MapKnitter installation easier.

Let me know if there are specific version requirements for rdoc.

This is new as of the fitBounds() addition to attempt proper bounding box setup :-(

http://test.mapknitter.org:3000/map/bronson-canyon-in-griffith-park

Filing for @bronwen9
When adding annotation, it should be possible to

1. have a bigger field for adding text
2. prompt to add a picture or video, explain that it already has to be online somewhere, and give an example link format.
3. once an annotation is saved, have an option to edit the annotation. Currently, it has to be deleted and a new one added.

at /authors, maybe?

many people don't lock their images; this indicates a poor convention, and maps can get damaged! Alternatively, we could have a "save" button so people have to make explicit saves? Potential data loss could then happen... :-(

Request from environmental justice group to view exported mapknitter maps with street names. This is important because landmarks are not necessarily recognizable form the air.

I just tried exporting this edited map http://mapknitter.org/maps/vadi-asbestonim
and it seemed to do the job, it got stuck in warping 10-15. didn't move for a while, and at a certain moment I saw a message that said "ajax failed" that appeared for two seconds on the same line - warpping 10-15 (ajax failed) or something like that.

Should we have the upload modal show the list of uploaded images. This would be especially useful when there are a lot of images, providing info like locked, hidden or anything that would be relevant. Options to delete images could also be provided using the in the list.

Edit:
Comments from research note:

"Another thing is that as we transition to just showing all images for your viewport, rather than having people create a map which "contains" images, the list of images may just be those currently shown in your viewport, which could update whenever you move the viewport. This does complicate ordering (which then has to be ordered in relation to any nearby image... the order index numbering would have to contain all images globally in MapKnitter), but we can probably put off thinking too hard about that for the time being since I don't think we have someone working on ordering. Perhaps at that time, we'd allow you to order upon assembling a set of images to export, and store just local (not global) order in the Export record. Or, we could (gasp) use decimals for order, and just allow images to be ordered with near-infinite precision, never having to "run out of integers" when ordering, the way CSS breaks down. Perhaps we could use a rough starting order # based on extent, which maps global size to some initial order decimal." - jywarren

"As we get into the map annotations with embedded pictures/notes/audio, some sort of file management zone seems to become important. Maybe the map image zone isn't the place to play with that.
you'll have to sell me on the idea of only listing images in the current window area-- it sounds like a "bouncy" menu that will change as I move around the map and drive me kinda nuts with its rapid movement. I'm thinking of menus on phones that change between the time I think to touch them and when my finger gets there (think Google Maps suggestions). I understand that when people get to lots and lots of images in Mapknitter a "master list" may get a bit unwieldy. I think that can be manageable if the correspondence between image in map and image in list is maintained by highlighting images on the map when clicking on the list and vise versa." - mathew

Gsoc update link

Could the column header say "Image metadata available"?

it is ugly

http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=141

currently I believe it's lat/lon, so distorted as you approach the poles. This would be done in GDAL, so be sure your local copy is correctly exporting maps before attempting this feature.

A long requested feature has emerged again: the ability to upload KML or CSV files to mapknitter to really use it as a presentation / information synthesis platform. Case in point, Staten Island's North Shore Waterfront Conservancy.