My Biggest Annoyance with the Atlas
There's a lot that we have said about the Atlas, which I won't post about again. My biggest annoyance is it could be more user friendly in helping me find a location.
In my work flow this morning, I was reading 2 Chron 16:1, and I decided to open Factbook to refresh my memory about the context of Ramah. Factbook very conveniently pulls up some dictionary articles which I scan. So far so good. Then in media, I click an image of the first map.
I squint and search for Ramah, thinking it is north near Tyer, but I don't see it. Maybe I am wrong. So I click command F (Mac) and to see if it pops up. It does, but I need to zoom in on it. Wait, the Find box is blocking the zoom controls.
So I close the box to get to the zoom controls, but the marker on the map disappears. I mentally hold in my mind where it is and, I click zoom and I can see the location on first click. However, in some cases, I have started to do this and I have had to do a search again to reorient the marker so that I can continue to zoom down.
Does anyone else experience this behaviour? Is there a better workaround? I consistently have to use Command-F to find my location of interest in the Atlas. The Find box also blocks the zoom controls. Would it be possible that when I click media that the software could automatically highlight the location and set the appropriate zoom level for me to continue my studies?
I really hope with the new subscription model we might see some badly needed TLC given to the Atlas. I sometimes still use Accordance's Atlas because it is so much more refined, efficient, intuitive and capable than this.
For example, in 2 Chronicles 16:3, it says they 'carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, which Baasha had been building, and with them he built Geba and Mizpah.' I tried to figure out the distance between Ramah and these locations, but finally gave up because of the friction. Want activate an overlay to a modern map? I could go on.