If you have watched the growth of photos tagged with remarkableohio on the Flickr map, you should have noticed a fundamental change in the way it works.
My original plan was to have one page that showed every marker tagged with “remarkableohio”. Now you get a listing at the bottom that says there are 277 pictures, but only about thirty red dots show up on the map. It takes a lot of work to see the rest of those dots.
I thought zooming in on an area would show all the markers in that area. This is not the case. From the full Ohio map, I zoomed into the Findlay area. I stopped when Hancock County filled the screen. I waited for the red dots to show up. I waited a long time. Nothing happened.
In other words, no markers showed up in Hancock County. This is about as bad as it can get. I have specified a tag with at least fifty hits around the county where I live and none of the markers are on the map. To get those markers at this new zoom level, I have to do a completely new search by clicking “Search the map” and then TYPING my tag. Flickr doesn’t even remember that I have already typed the tag on the previous page.
After a new search, Flickr says there are 54 matches but still only shows about half of those markers. If you want to see all the markers, you must zoom into a specific area and TYPE another search. I zoomed into downtown Findlay, TYPED a new search and still don’t see almost half of the markers in the downtown area.
Way to take a killer application and cripple it, Flickr. Why isn’t there a button that says “Show all markers”???
Also, why did the scroll mouse zoom go away? I used it all the time. Now it’s gone.
Please give me my old Flickr map back!
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