Is there no way to find a particular map again, given its title?

There is a map in Biblical Places called "The Judges and their Homelands" which I had seen before and was trying to get back to. It's impossible to find again by the title. I tried typing the phrase in to the Place box in Biblical Places; no dice. (It only accepts geographic places.) I tried searching my entire library for that phrase, and again no dice. It's not in any searchable resource (Biblical Places apparently isn't a searchable resource.)

I ended up having to do a Passage guide on Judges and then poking around for quite a while through maps that came up in that, looking at the related maps along the bottom, until I finally was able to stumble upon it. That's not what searching for something in Logos should be like. If I'd known a city that was on that map, I might have been able to locate it that way, but I didn't.

Is there any way to find a map given its exact title? Or searching for it using key words in its title that are not geographic names. E.g., "divided kingdom" or "Paul" (for maps having to do with the travels of Paul)?

If not, there should be, and I'll promote this to a Suggestion.

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Tim Hensler

[Y] Been there, done that. This would help.

Robert J Smith

It does not seem that the map you seek belongs to any of the map collections such as the "Logos Deluxe Map Set". I would suggest that it and others like it need to be in a set that will appear when you search for "maps" in the library. FYI you can find the map you mentioned using the geographical local of Shiloh. It is a cool map.

Melissa Snyder

Biblical People/Places/Things aren't included in a Search. Ctrl+F is available, but that only works on the active map. If it hasn't been too far back since you viewed it, it could still be on your History list.

I'll submit a request for a way to search for particular maps.

Melissa

spitzerpl

I ended up having to do a Passage guide on Judges and then poking around for quite a while through maps that came up in that, looking at the related maps along the bottom, until I finally was able to stumble upon it. That's not what searching for something in Logos should be like. If I'd known a city that was on that map, I might have been able to locate it that way, but I didn't.

What resource did the map end up being in? Could you provide the link to it? My thought is to do a #image search of the whole library for it.

Damian McGrath

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/92909#Comment_92909

I'll submit a request for a way to search for particular maps.

Thanks Melissa. I was trying a couple of weeks ago to find maps on the Allotment of Tribal Lands and on the Divided Kingdom and had to run passage guide searches. It's a very inefficient way to find a map.

spitzerpl

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/93216#Comment_93216

Thanks Melissa. I was trying a couple of weeks ago to find maps on the Allotment of Tribal Lands and on the Divided Kingdom and had to run passage guide searches. It's a very inefficient way to find a map.

With an incomplete index "#image divided kingdom" returned some pretty good search results. "#image Tribal Lands" also bore some success. what kind of results do these search's (basic/whole library) return for you?

Sean Boisen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/93219#Comment_93219

Unfortunately there is not (yet) any way to search for maps by name, only by places on the map. That comes up short if you don't happen to know which places are on the map you're looking for. We'll add this to our list of suggested new features.

You also can't yet link to maps: the hyperlink protocol for People/Places/Things hasn't been developed yet (but i know Bradley has it on his plan).

Image search (using #image) doesn't return Logos maps, it returns media items from books. Some of those might represent maps, but they're different from the Logos maps: for example, they're not zoomable, the cities aren't hyperlinked, Ctrl-F doesn't work, etc.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/92934#Comment_92934

Biblical People/Places/Things aren't included in a Search. Ctrl+F is available, but that only works on the active map. If it hasn't been too far back since you viewed it, it could still be on your History list.

Actually, the first time I wanted to look up this map, it wasn't because I personally had seen it before, it was someone on the Forum who was talking about it, and I wanted to go find it, so it wouldn't have been on my History list.

I'll submit a request for a way to search for particular maps.

Thank you! That would be awesome.

I ended up having to do a Passage guide on Judges and then poking around for quite a while through maps that came up in that, looking at the related maps along the bottom, until I finally was able to stumble upon it. That's not what searching for something in Logos should be like. If I'd known a city that was on that map, I might have been able to locate it that way, but I didn't.

What resource did the map end up being in? Could you provide the link to it? My thought is to do a #image search of the whole library for it.

It wasn't in a resource, it was just in Biblical Places. If it were in a resource, I could have done a search in my Library for it. And no, I can't provide a link. As Sean Boisen points out in a later post, linking to maps is not implemented yet.

Melissa. I was trying a couple of weeks ago to find maps on the Allotment of Tribal Lands and on the Divided Kingdom and had to run passage guide searches. It's a very inefficient way to find a map.

Not to mention the fact that you would have to know what passage to search through to find a particular map. What if I didn't know my Bible very well and wanted to find a map showing the Divided Kingdom? I might have to do a passage guide on the entire Old Testament to find it, which would be extremely inefficient and I'd have to weed through all the other maps that would be found.