Dear Listers,
Just to keep you all in the picture.....
I wrote again to Tom Pert, the contact person for the cymru1900wales website
and received a helpful response this morning. I've copied (below) the
response, which contains the contents of my original email.
Many thanks to Peter Jones, Clive Gardener, and Mike Powell for your
thoughts on the teething troubles with this new website. I think we'll have
to be patient while these problems are ironed out.
Kind regards,
John
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John Ball, Brecon, Powys
E-mail: john(a)jlb2011.co.uk
Website:
http://www.jlb2011.co.uk
Blog:
http://johnofbrecon.com
-----Original Message-----
From: lorna hughes
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 11:15 AM
To: John Ball
Subject: Re: Questions
Hi John,
Thanks for getting in touch.
A change was made to the way that the markers display overnight on the 11th
November, and since then markers have been displaying properly. However, we
still haven't quite got the balance right between displaying markers and
page load times.
As for the markers obscuring the base mapping, this is something we should
have anticipated. I think probably the best way around it is for us to
develop a show/hide markers button in the mapping window.
I will make these suggestions to the developer and hopefully you will notice
these enhancements in the near future.
Best wishes,
Tom.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:47 AM, John Ball <john(a)jlb2011.co.uk> wrote:
Thank you Tom,
I returned to the
www.cymru1900wales.org website this morning after a week's
break from transcribing place-names.
I was pleased to see that tags for all the transcriptions I'd previously
done in and around Brecon are now shown (in green!) on the publicly viewable
map.
However, when I went to the city of Swansea, there were so many densely
packed grey tags that the map itself is barely visible at the default zoom
level. And even worse, the map takes ages to refresh itself if I attempt to
recentre the map or to zoom in or out. The processing takes so long that
both my web browsers (Firefox and Chrome) go into 'not responding' mode!
I suspect there is a fault in the scripting employed by the website design
team.
Regards,
John
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John Ball, Brecon, Powys
E-mail: john(a)jlb2011.co.uk
Website:
http://www.jlb2011.co.uk
Blog:
http://johnofbrecon.com