Logos 5 Map Features Missing in Logos 6
1. In Logos 5 all maps, photos and images related to cities were all accessable in one place from your right click menu. I would also like to search for verses related to the Maps so I can find maps related to the specific event I am Studying.
2. All Maps were Zoomable and we have the ability to pan. In Logos 6 only the Atlas and the 63 Maps created are Zoomable.
3. You could easily scroll through all the maps and images. In Factbook you have to resize the screen and then only those maps that fit on the screen are viewable. The rest you have to search for in Media.
4. Full Screen Available for all maps, images related to the cities and infographics.
Please restore these features and also allow us to search from the right click menu for Maps tagged with verses related to the Biblical event (other then the ones you are creating for Atlas).
Thanks!
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Can anyone answer if we will have the ability to pan and zoom on all maps like we had in Logos 5? Example the ESV and Holman Maps. Now they currently just open up in the book resource. Has anyone else noticed these issues? The ability to right scroll through all the maps and images is missing in Factbook. Will this issue be fixed in the future?
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Anyone?
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John Brumett said:
Can anyone answer if we will have the ability to pan and zoom on all maps like we had in Logos 5? Example the ESV and Holman Maps. Now they currently just open up in the book resource. Has anyone else noticed these issues? The ability to right scroll through all the maps and images is missing in Factbook. Will this issue be fixed in the future?
You can do a media search for these and they come up. For instance: Do a media search for "Jerusalem" and all maps in your library tagged for Jerusalem will come up. You can zoom in and out on these.
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John Brumett said:
The ability to right scroll through all the maps and images is missing in Factbook.
You can replicate the old L5 behaviour in L6.
- Open a Search panel, and select Media.
- Change All Media to Maps.
- Type the name of the place you're interested in (e.g. Bethlehem). Make sure you select the Biblical Place from the suggested list (it will say town, village, mountain, etc.)
- Many of the L4/5 maps you will be able to pan and zoom, (although not maps in resources).
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I still have L5, so I was curious about John's concerns.
Best I can see, the answers calmed him down by concluding he's correct? I know the resource maps/images in the Bible Facts tool (L5) are indeed all zoomable/panable. Thumbs scrollable. Granted, the right-click menu > Bible Facts lands you 10 miles up wondering where 'Shinar' is on the map. From other threads, I guess now, you land 5 inches above Shinar.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Mark Barnes said:
Many of the L4/5 maps you will be able to pan and zoom, (although not maps in resources).
Mark, I know that Logos Maps (the 63) are zoomable but by problem is the ESV Study maps and other maps in Holman Bible Atlas, Zondervan Bible Atlas, ect are not Zoomable like they were in Logos 5. I am a Pastor and I love for presentation purposes to Pan and Zoom on any map in Logos library.
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David Taylor Jr said:
You can do a media search for these and they come up. For instance: Do a media search for "Jerusalem" and all maps in your library tagged for Jerusalem will come up. You can zoom in and out on these.
David, try Maps on Jerusalem in ISBE or Holman Resources or ESB study Bible. They are not zoomable like in Logos 5. They simply take you to the resource. I would like this feature for all maps.
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John Brumett said:David Taylor Jr said:
You can do a media search for these and they come up. For instance: Do a media search for "Jerusalem" and all maps in your library tagged for Jerusalem will come up. You can zoom in and out on these.
David, try Maps on Jerusalem in ISBE or Holman Resources or ESB study Bible. They are not zoomable like in Logos 5. They simply take you to the resource. I would like this feature for all maps.
Unfortunately since I know longer have L5 I can't go back and verify this.
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David Taylor Jr said:
Unfortunately since I know longer have L5 I can't go back and verify this.
You can verify that the Maps in Logos 6 in ISBE, Holman Resources or ESV Study Bible are not zoomable. Thanks!
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I wonder why L6 removed the zoomable resource maps. I thought that was a selling point in L5? I know Libby can't do that (she tried really hard).
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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John Brumett said:David Taylor Jr said:
Unfortunately since I know longer have L5 I can't go back and verify this.
You can verify that the Maps in Logos 6 in ISBE, Holman Resources or ESV Study Bible are not zoomable. Thanks!
I'll be home in about an hour and I'll take a look at it.
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I still have L5 on an old XP computer - I pulled up "Jerusalem in the Time of Herod the Great" in the New Bible Dictionary, Third Edition (page 563) on both L5 and L6. In L5 (using the Biblical Places tool) one can zoom in on the diagrammatic representation of the city, but cannot achieve this objective in L6 (after performing "Search Maps in All Resources for Jerusalem"). So I can confirm that in L6 some of the maps can no longer be zoomed.
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Thanks, Bruce for confirming this. Is this an issue that will be fixed in the future? I need to hear from an official logos person.
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John Brumett said:
Thanks, Bruce for confirming this. Is this an issue that will be fixed in the future? I need to hear from an official logos person.
I hope so - though LOGOS 6 has zoomable maps, they can not provide as much details as the collected information contained in the many maps included in all the LOGOS books. The LOGOS 6 maps also are not yet complete and it will be weeks or months till they are. Please return this functionality to pre-existing maps.
Blessings,
FloydPastor-Patrick.blogspot.com
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Can anyone tell me if this functionality will return to all Logos 6 Maps?
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John, you may well get lucky. But Logos and 'zoom' are antonyms.
I'd of thought by version 6, they could have mastered it. But apparently not (referring to their new maps creation). For years, they wouldn't put a button on the screen (for touch screen use in Bible class presentations). Nor would they 'land' the user at an altitude sufficient to see the desired location ... you had to do a 'find'. (I keep laughing about that one.) Oddly, if you scan their executable (Logos.exe), it has zoom levels/calls sufficient for the job. Makes you wonder.
Anyway, I think this is important to you in your Bible classes. If you don't get a Logos answer now, I'd wait a bit and then make another run at it (between Logos6 and Black Friday). My guess is they're on the tail-end of re-assigning people to the rollout, more critical bugs, etc.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Floyd Johnson said:
Has LOGOS given any more thought to this issue?
Indeed, and a case has been filed by Sean to address it - https://community.logos.com/forums/t/92655.aspx
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Graham Criddle said:
Indeed, and a case has been filed by Sean to address it - https://community.logos.com/forums/t/92655.aspx
I suspect you are correct Graham, but your link does not discuss the bug mentioned in this thread. Do you have the correct link?
Blessings,
FloydPastor-Patrick.blogspot.com
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Floyd Johnson said:Graham Criddle said:
Indeed, and a case has been filed by Sean to address it - https://community.logos.com/forums/t/92655.aspx
I suspect you are correct Graham, but your link does not discuss the bug mentioned in this thread. Do you have the correct link?
Hi Floyd, apologies for the wrong link.
Graham
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