Resource View: Maps and Media

Brad Parham
Brad Parham Member Posts: 6 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Feedback
Please improve the access to maps and media on a mobile device, especially tablets. To be able to browse/examine maps on a tablet would be a far better experience than a desktop.
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  • Jonathan Sheehy
    Jonathan Sheehy Member Posts: 34 ✭✭
    And on mobile. Many of us are truly mobile-only users.


    The maps functionality is essentially useless on mobile. (The Atlas function is absolutely not made for mobile phones.)


    I have several atlases in my library with excellent maps in them. Surely Factbook place entries could simply search Atlas resources for relevant maps? That would be 1) excellent and useful, and 2) what I naturally expected when I started looking up places in Factbook. It's hard for me to overstate how surprised (in a bad way) I was when I discovered how bad the map functionality is in Logos. I genuinely thought I'd missed something, so experimented, went searching forums, etc. But no, it turns out I was right: Usable map functionality for mobile phones is just not there.
    P.S. Olive Tree have got this right in their app.

    P.P.S. A workaround: Create a 'collection' (using the desktop app) that contains all your atlases. Then on mobile, when you want to see a map, open a search, set it to search the Atlas collection you made, and type in the place you're looking for. That's a heap of taps required every time you want to look up a map (given you've paid for atlases) of a place that shows up in a text you were reading. I expected Factbook to look after this for me in a couple of taps.

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