Disappointed with maps in Logos

Allen Browne
Allen Browne Member Posts: 1,893 ✭✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

My biggest disappointment with Logos 6 is that the maps still don't work at the most basic level.

Today's example:

  1. Open the ESV to Nehemiah 1:1.
  2. Right-click, on Susa, and choose "Susa: Place".
  3. Click Atlas.

Logos 6 opens a map labelled "Jacob Returns to Canaan"--the wrong end of OT history. This map shows Carchemish and Haran (in Turkey) -- not even close to Shūsh (in Iran).

Yes, I can choose FactBook instead, and then wait for a bunch more maps to load from afar, and then fool around them them until I finally find Susa on the *sixth* map offered! But seriously?

Truly woeful, through version after version of Logos. Forget Atlas. Forget Factbook. Forget Biblical Places. Forget automated tagging. Start again. Tag the text of Scripture with a right-click option that instantly gives us a useful map. It can't be that hard.

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 33,250

    Allen Browne said:

    Today's example:

    1. Open the ESV to Nehemiah 1:1.
    2. Right-click, on Susa, and choose "Susa: Place".
    3. Click Atlas.

    Logos 6 opens a map labelled "Jacob Returns to Canaan"--the wrong end of OT history. This map shows Carchemish and Haran (in Turkey) -- not even close to Shūsh (in Iran).

    Your example nearly works properly in 6.0b beta 1

    In the screenshot below I followed your steps above

    As you can see it has a reasonable map, but not showing the right place

    However if I pan right the correct place is highlighted (here I have my cursor over the orange dot)

    I'll make a link to this thread in the beta forum

    EDIT: Cross-posted to https://community.logos.com/forums/t/97584.aspx 

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